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Pink_Slyvie t1_j6yma2f wrote

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Rotting in the ground releases the CO2.

That's what most people don't understand about wood. It's part of the carbon cycle. Unlike fossil fuels, you aren't adding to the carbon cycle.

The big issue with wood is it's not sustainable at scale, sure there is a climate impact, but not at the level of Fossil fuels.

I was reading a study however, saying that, if properly done, a single acre of land could provide enough wood to heat a home indefinitely, I don't recall the details past that though.

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drxdrg08 t1_j6ytevx wrote

> Rotting in the ground releases the CO2.

Some. And it takes a very long time. All cars will be electric by the time a tree that dies today will be converted back to co2 from rotting. So burning now is a bad idea.

> I was reading a study however, saying that, if properly done, a single acre of land could provide enough wood to heat a home indefinitely, I don't recall the details past that though.

How big is the house, how insulated, what temperature inside, what temperature outside. This is probably a bad idea too since it takes a lot of energy to go from a tree outside to it heating up your house. And that energy has a carbon footprint too. I would not be so fast to say that burning fossil fuels in a very efficient and clean way is worse than burning wood even in theory. In practice virtually nobody wants to do that.

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Pink_Slyvie t1_j6zdlre wrote

In the end, we need to focus on fully renewable. My only initial point is that wood is a suitable substitute for when Electric is out, or even as an occasional thing for pleasure.

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