[Greenbuilding] H2k and NZE home modelling

[Ross Elliott]

Hi Harold,

 

I burn my wood in an indoor Tarm gasification boiler and store the heat in
an insulated 850 gallon tank, so I think I've found a way to burn clean and
still have a very low heat load in my house. My wife and I walk our dogs
past our neighbor's house and noticed they were burning wood badly, very
smoky all the time (before this year they had been using just electric heat,
but I guess the 30% increase here in Ontario got yo them). Last night the
whole fire department was at their house putting out a chimney fire.

 

Ross

 

From: Harold and Mary Orr [mailto:h.m.orr at sasktel.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:20 PM
To: relliott at homesol.ca
Cc: Ross Elliott; 'Gordon Howell -- Howell Mayhew Engineering'; 'John
Straube'; 'Green Building'; 'Peter Amerongen--Habitat Studio and Workshop';
'Amelie Caron--EcoSynergy'; 'Rob Dumont'
Subject: Re: H2k and NZE home modelling

 

Ross you have a point but I would like to point out that places that thave
gone this way (i.e.: firewood) have had difficulties.  Two examples Boulder
CO and Whitehorse YK.  A  forest fire came wihin 20 miles of Whitehorse and
killed a large area of forest, the trees were still standing and after a
year were bone dry.  So a large percentage of the city put in wood stoves
and furnaces, bought chainsaws, and burned wood.  The air got so bad they
had to forbid wood burning.  the same thing happened in Boulder CO.  Of
course neither of these cities were deeply into conservation, but I'm afraid
that that would not have helped.  Low energy homes need only a small amount
of heat, with wood stoves it means starving the fire to keep the heat down
and so it burns very dirty.  This means serious air polution!!!

Harold Orr





 

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