My neighbour opted for a wind turbine instead. He's a Big Fan.
My neighbour opted for a wind turbine instead. He's a Big Fan.
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Hey, what goes around comes around Mossy 😉
I was a bit of an oddball until I was abducted by aliens; but I'm perfectly OK now!
My uncle had a small farm in Ireland, and my father bought a chainsaw. Over 30 years he felled every decent tree on that farm to heat three house. I though it was an environment crime, when you think of the hundreds of years of growth that was required for 30 yeas of heating.
DPB, you're actually quoting a very small portion of my post quite out of context without the remainder of the post.
The ethical way is not to fell 'decent' trees. There's plenty of fallen and wind-blown timber. In the laws of the ancient Forest of Bowland the commoners were only allowed to take branches that could be reached with a shepherd's crook and cut with a bill-hook. Hence the expression '...by hook or by crook....'
As in my post above .... your father would not have actually felled the complete trees without his new fangled chainsaw, they make life too easy, too soft, hence unethical.
But granted, no heating system is efficient, some are just less inefficient than others; and most of us judge a systems inefficiency on personal cost rather than environmental impact.
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I was a bit of an oddball until I was abducted by aliens; but I'm perfectly OK now!
Last edited by Graham Breeze; 20-03-2018 at 03:43 PM.
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".