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Given that wood can be sustainable, how bad a fuel is this to burn for heating and cooking? It would seem a little better than the likes of fossil fuels in that it can be replaced, but how bad is it’s carbon release? Surely the carbon would cycle again when a new tree grew, so would that cancel out?

I don’t know, but I rely on my wood furnace. I simply cannot afford over 80 cents a litre for heating oil—it’s insane. I have hot water heat (old iron radiators) and the wood furnace heats the water for the radiators. I probably burn 5 or 6 cord of wood a year, which I get from local woodlots whose owners manage them rather than clearcutting them, to ensure they can supply wood for years to come.

well in terms of carbon release, burning the wood would release all of the previously sequestered carbon of that tree back into the atmousphere.

I guess that is my point though. You burn a tree from a sustainable forest, you plant a new one that is grown to the same point. In growing, it takes up the same amount of carbon that was released. The net carbon release would be zero, and therefore, this should be a fairly ‘clean’ fuel.

That’s good to hear. I’m kind of a big fan of fireplaces and such. (that use wood, not the fake ones)

We use our wood burning fireplace during the colder months, but it does seem to make the house dirty ith soot.  I would think as long as the trees are replanted that are cut down it is a good alternative source for heating a home.

I wonder is wood burning as fuel more cost effective than oil or gas?

We use a pellet stove instead of wood to supplement the heat in the lower level it gets very cold down there as opposed to raising the heat in the whole house.

Wood burning is cost effective but it affect the human health which is the very serious thing and will spoil the balancing of environmental factors.

Changing a wood burning stove to a wood burning fireplace?

we bought a house with a wood burning stove in the kitchen with a metal chimney. We are remondeling the kitchen and want to change this to a wood burning fireplace. Can we do this wothout replacing the entire chimney?

Pyrography is the art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object such as a poker.