Global Warming Frewood Is A Renewable Energy
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Recycling trees downed by storms or urban expansion helps to cut down on global
warming. Yes burning firewood puts carbon into the air but we can offset it by burning it
clean. A wood burning stove can heat an entire home. Wood stoves are clean burning
and generate a large quantity of heat in a controlled burn. Heat is generated from a few
pieces of wood burnt over 8 to 14 hours depending on the size of the wood stove. Unlike
burning firewood in a fireplace where the wood is burned uncontrolled and the bulk of the
heat goes up the chimney.
Heating a home with gas, oil or electricity is more damaging to the environment than
burning firewood in a wood stove. More heat BTUs are generated by the burning of a few
pieces firewood in a wood stove than by the coal burned to produce electricity. Wood
burning stoves slowly burn the wood to get the maximum amount of heat from the least
amount of wood.
Wood is a biomass fuel that is renewable over a short period of time verses the millions of
years it takes to produce coal. Burning of coal, natural gas and oil is releasing carbon that
has been buried for millions of years. Burning of wood is releasing carbons that have
been removed from the air, produced oxygen as a result, and then puts it back into the
air. If the wood is left to rot it will still release the carbons back into the air. The burning of
firewood in wood stoves utilizes this process and should be encouraged as a viable
solution against global warming.
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