[Greenbuilding] Greenbuilding Digest, Vol 4, Issue 18

Clarke Olsen colsen at fairpoint.net
Wed Dec 22 16:21:40 CST 2010


  Willows are not called "vertical leach fields" for nothing, that is  
some wet wood. Pretty, but a loss for lumba or firewood.
Clarke Olsen
373 route 203
Spencertown, NY 12165
USA
518-392-4640
colsen at fairpoint.net



On Dec 22, 2010, at 4:21 PM, action jackson wrote:

> If wood - pound for pound- has roughly equivalent values ,
>
>  why are we not planting and coppicing willow groves with which to  
> heat? Seems to me that this rapidly renewable wood would burn hot  
> (ideal for masonry heaters) and give more btu's per acre given it's  
> rapid growth?
>
> what am I not getting?
>
>
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