BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Psamathe]

and in France more often for essential heating.

When I lived in France the Government paid for most of the cost of my new woodburner ("survey", burner and chimney liner, installation, etc.) brand new top of the range Jøtul wood burning stove cost me cents. Crédit d’Impôt de la Transition Énergétique - CITE.

But not long after the Gov. recognised the negative unsustainable aspects to wood burners so cut support levels then changed the scheme to something else more targeted to need?

I was fortunate in that I lived over a mile from the nearest house and had enough hectares and trees to feed the stove from fallen branches as well as leaving loads of fallen branches on the ground for wildlife.

They day that more than half a tree's useful life is after it has died.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Lots of things can be made of wood. It's exciting isn't it.

Your fireplace is not.

 

[Dorset Boy]

A lot will depend on the quality and price of the wood. The suppliers in Devon were shysters when I had the stove here ("dry hardwood" was wet softwood, and loads were however much they felt like you deserved), the ones in France much better, as I think ones in Devon are mostly supplying for 'cosmetic' woodburners ('cosy evenings by the fire', aw!!), and in France more often for essential heating.

That's because it is impossible to dry anything out in such a wet county!

 

[briantrumpet]

Luckily log burners are a bit of a niche source of fuel and rarely used as a main source of heating. If they were ever to become one of the major sources of heating then I am not sure the argument of sustainability would stand without the UK turning over a huge amount of land for forestry to cover the Carbon Debt effect.

Most places had been largely deforested by humans using the wood as a 'free' resource for building and heating some centuries ago. Dartmoor (for instance) a few thousand years ago, France more recently (not least as it's twice the size of the UK). Wood is my sole source of heating in France, but it's only in effect one large room for about four/five weeks a year, and even so I use a fair bit (for a not very high temperature... about 17C)

 

[briantrumpet]

That's because it is impossible to dry anything out in such a wet county!

We have got roofs in Devon (even if lots of them are straw-based compost heaps).

 

[First Aspect]

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Your fireplace is not.

Why don't you block me?

 

[Rusty Nails]

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Why don't you block me?

Careful. You might die from carbon monoxide poisoning.

 

[PurplePenguin]

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Why don't you block me?

Where's the fun in that?

 

[First Aspect]

Where's the fun in that?

Which one of us are you referring to?

 

[Ian H]

Which one of us are you referring to?

How many of you are there?

 

[briantrumpet]

When I lived in France the Government paid for most of the cost of my new woodburner ("survey", burner and chimney liner, installation, etc.) brand new top of the range Jøtul wood burning stove cost me cents. Crédit d’Impôt de la Transition Énergétique - CITE.

But not long after the Gov. recognised the negative unsustainable aspects to wood burners so cut support levels then changed the scheme to something else more targeted to need?

I was fortunate in that I lived over a mile from the nearest house and had enough hectares and trees to feed the stove from fallen branches as well as leaving loads of fallen branches on the ground for wildlife.

They day that more than half a tree's useful life is after it has died.

It was an absolute no-brainer for me when I was living on a farm with still-standing dead elm.

 

[First Aspect]

How many of you are there?

I hadn't thought of it that way. Neither had I.

 

[briantrumpet]

How many of you are there?

Has someone dropped a clanger?

 

[briantrumpet]

The Telegraph has spoken... to the bunkers!!

 

[Dorset Boy]

Sensibly, the Government have given the go ahead for Jackdaw and gas will start flowing to the UK at the end of this month.
Given that gas will be consumed where ever it comes from, this is environmentally far better that importing LNG from the US, Qatar or Australia.