[Greenbuilding] Wood is the #1 domestic renewable energy source in the U.S., by far

[Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn]

I don't know what to think about wood for heating. Apart from the fancy
combustion stoves, burning wood lets off massive amounts of gases no?

On Wednesday, September 25, 2013, Norbert Senf wrote:

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>  Interesting stats from Alliance for Green Heat:
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> http://forgreenheat.blogspot.**ca/2013/09/2012-census-shows-**
> wood-heating.html<http://forgreenheat.blogspot.ca/2013/09/2012-census-shows-wood-heating.html>
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> " According to recently released U.S. Census statistics, 63,566 more
> families used wood or pellets as a primary heating fuel in 2012 compared to
> 2011, which amounts to an increase of 2.6%, making wood again the fastest
> growing heating fuel in America.
>
> From 2000 to 2010, wood and pellet home heating grew by 34%, faster than
> any of the other heating fuels, including solar and natural gas. Oil and
> propane use declined between 2000 and 2010, and the decline continued in
> 2012.
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> Today, 2.1% of Americans use wood or pellets as their primary heating
> fuel, up from 1.6% in 2000. An additional 7.7 % of U.S. households use wood
> as a secondary heating fuel, according to the 2009 EIA Renewable Energy
> Consumption Survey.
>
> Nearly 2.5 million households use wood as a primary heating fuel, making
> it, by far, the dominant residential source of renewable energy in the
> United States. In comparison, only about 500,000 of U.S. homes have solar
> panels and less than 50,000 use solar thermal heating. Solar thermal
> heating dropped by 2% in 2012 from 2011, according to the new Census
> numbers.
>
> (snip)"
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Gennaro Brooks-Church, Director
Eco Brooklyn
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