[Stoves] Paper on fire-break wood and its use as a domestic fuel (2008)

[Dan Dimiduk]

These problems have been solved before. Chip the brush, set up portable pellet makers at landing sites in the woods. Or, portable gasifiers, or leave the larger branches and trees for local folks to come get " at their own risk". Here in Ohio we recently purged State parks of dying ash trees from the ash borer firestorm. Professionals dropped the trees and the public was invited to take the wood at their own risk. Thousands of cords of wood were salvaged as heating fuel. Only the trees that were in open areas or threatened roads were cut. Still lots of dead trees out in the woods. The woodpeckers are multiplying like crazy and starting to catch up with the borer. Just a few years ago at an Ohio State pesticide conference, they said there was no sign of woodpeckers eating Borers. Nature adapts. I'm more worried about the 200 year old White Oaks and the Asian bark Beatle.

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Philip Lloyd <plloyd at mweb.co.za> wrote:

>The problem is the transport of the free wood. It is the forestry problem -
>about half the biomass is wasted because a) it is high volume, low mass and
>b) its areal density is low and c) getting transport to it is a problem. The
>CCHRC has the additional problem that the cold climate trees tend to be
>small diameter, so the trees themselves don't make for useful timber.
>Philip
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stoves [mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of
>Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
>Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2017 11:14 PM
>To: 'Stoves (stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org)'
>Subject: [Stoves] Paper on fire-break wood and its use as a domestic fuel
>(2008)
>
>Dear Friends
>
>What can we do with free wood created by making fire-breaks?
>
>++++++++++
>
>Support for Developing a Sustainable Fire Load Reduction Program by Creating
>and Expanding Wood-Energy Enterprises
>mha-net.org/docs/articles/FNSB%20Wood%20Energy%20Final%20Report.pdf<http://m
>ha-net.org/docs/articles/FNSB%20Wood%20Energy%20Final%20Report.pdf>
>
>Support for Developing a Sustainable Fire Load Reduction Program by Creating
>and Expanding Wood-Energy Enterprises
>
>Abstract
>The Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC) has researched the topic of
>residential scale wood energy including fuel sources, available technology
>and its proper use, regulations, particulate emissions, efficiency and
>economics. A description of the projects, a technology review and results of
>CCHRC lab tests of wood-fired devices are described in this report.
>
>Tested in a wood gasifier (in Portland). Maybe Tom M was doing this...!
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>+++++++++
>
>Regards
>Crispin
>
>
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