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Using Wood as Fuel
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:04:46
Publish Date: 2021-02-09 03:09:00
Description: Humans have used wood as fuel for millennia. It has been used for cooking, heating, and more recently power production. I thought this topic would be timely given that we are experiencing our first real cold snap of 2021. In fact, I’ve had our wood stove burning all weekend – enjoying the fire inside while looking out our frosty windows. Many people believe that wood is an old-fashioned fuel. It’s great for smores on campfires but ends there. What surprises people is how much wood is used as fuel. Globally, 51% of all wood used is for fuel. In developing regions, like Africa, 90% of wood used is for fuel. Closer to home the U.S., about 8% of wood used is for fuel. One major advantage of wood fuel is that it is carbon neutral. Carbon is released when wood is burned, but it is also sequestered in our forests at the same time. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency treats wood biomass from managed forests as carbon neutral - something that is realized every day in Wisconsin given our
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