Tree Waste

[frashdog]

While on that level it might have some merit. As it stands if it's headed to the dump to be buried then it's achieved the goal you set forth. But it's a wasted resource when it could be used for other purposes. More efficient wood burning technologies for firewood, repurposing of the wood that now is considered unusable simply because of the risk of embedded metal. Some species of trees could be used in Hugelkultur beds but that actually relies on decomposition.

We become distracted from the goal of weaning off of fossil fuels by seeking what is in effect offsets instead of real reductions.

As a side note, the conversion of organics to fossil fuels is not likely to happen since the evolution of fungi that feed on the tissues that gave rise to the fuels. Unless we kill those off as well....

I heard that there is so much fossil fuel

Wood burial as a means of sequestration would only be beneficial if we stopped using fossil fuels. Why bury wood and burn gas or oil to heat? Why burn coal to make electricity when you can do it with wood? Fossil fuels are old buried wood essentially. It's a net loss.
We should be using wood wastes to offset fossil fuel use and at the same time reduce energy consumption.

We're not that far off from feeling our vehicles with liquefied syngas or fuel brewed from biomass.

V

read again you got it. Carbon sequestering is great...but ge

I heard from a guy in Cambridge who grinds that he needs to add a bunch of leaves with the chips to balance it out.

He used to allow grass trimmings from the lawn jockeys. That is until the whole batch got contaminated with weed n feed. Big loss, no more grass trimmings.

right on...

yeah "keep off the grass", people put crazy stuff on it.

 

[treehumper]

I heard that there is so much fossil fuel

That's true and what makes it so damn cheap!