Comments on: Safe, Inexpensive, Effective, Warming http://www.shopfloor.org/2008/12/27/safe-inexpensive-effective-warming/ The National Association of Manufacturers Premier Manufacturing Blog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:44:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: J. Lynne http://www.shopfloor.org/2008/12/27/safe-inexpensive-effective-warming/#comment-7548 J. Lynne Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:06:14 +0000 http://www.shopfloor.org/?p=8283#comment-7548 The problem is that there's no way to heat your house that doesn't generate pollution in some way. After I was told I had to replace my furnace this year and after I received the contract rates for heating oil, I decided to go with a wood pellet furnace. Even still, I worried about deforestation and pollution from wood-burning, both of which are lower with wood pellet technology. There has been a run on wood pellet stoves here in Maine in 2008 and it's been near impossible to find wood pellets since June. My supplier had to bring them in from Canada, I think. Recently, I've been seeing articles about increases in the Northern states in wood burning pollution in the last two years, clearly due to the high cost of oil. Even my neighbors started making use of their wood stoves as opposed to their oil furnaces starting last Winter. So, even though it's a renewable resource which we aren't purchasing from volatile countries, I expect there will be an outcry against burning wood soon. These things go in circles. The problem is that there’s no way to heat your house that doesn’t generate pollution in some way.

After I was told I had to replace my furnace this year and after I received the contract rates for heating oil, I decided to go with a wood pellet furnace. Even still, I worried about deforestation and pollution from wood-burning, both of which are lower with wood pellet technology. There has been a run on wood pellet stoves here in Maine in 2008 and it’s been near impossible to find wood pellets since June. My supplier had to bring them in from Canada, I think.

Recently, I’ve been seeing articles about increases in the Northern states in wood burning pollution in the last two years, clearly due to the high cost of oil. Even my neighbors started making use of their wood stoves as opposed to their oil furnaces starting last Winter.

So, even though it’s a renewable resource which we aren’t purchasing from volatile countries, I expect there will be an outcry against burning wood soon. These things go in circles.

]]> By: Peg C. http://www.shopfloor.org/2008/12/27/safe-inexpensive-effective-warming/#comment-7543 Peg C. Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:58:12 +0000 http://www.shopfloor.org/?p=8283#comment-7543 Enviro-leftists oppose coal, but they also oppose oil, gas, nukes, all generators of electricity, and all effective forms of energy, because they oppose the developers and users of energy: homosapiens. It's the same hatred that drives the rest of the AGW movement. Humans breathe out carbon dioxide which is evil, so we are evil. We have to follow their arguments to their natural conclusion, and all roads lead to the same destination: nature good, man bad. Except we are part of nature. Force these people to go all the way with their dogma and throw their conclusions in their faces. Enviro-leftists oppose coal, but they also oppose oil, gas, nukes, all generators of electricity, and all effective forms of energy, because they oppose the developers and users of energy: homosapiens. It’s the same hatred that drives the rest of the AGW movement. Humans breathe out carbon dioxide which is evil, so we are evil.

We have to follow their arguments to their natural conclusion, and all roads lead to the same destination: nature good, man bad. Except we are part of nature. Force these people to go all the way with their dogma and throw their conclusions in their faces.

]]> By: M. Simon http://www.shopfloor.org/2008/12/27/safe-inexpensive-effective-warming/#comment-7538 M. Simon Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:02:35 +0000 http://www.shopfloor.org/?p=8283#comment-7538 We used to have to bank the coal fire at night when I was a kid. And turn down the damper. Up in the morning to a cold house to shovel coal on the fire and open the damper. Then we got a coal augur and it was heaven. Just make sure a bunch of coal was piled on the augur at night, turn down the thermostat and in the morning turn up the thermostat wait for the warmth and then check the augur to make sure there was enough coal until school let out. A few years later we got natural gas and the romance of coal was over. I still miss the coal truck backing up to the coal chute and dumping a load of heat into the coal bin. And to hear those days are coming back. Great. We used to have to bank the coal fire at night when I was a kid. And turn down the damper. Up in the morning to a cold house to shovel coal on the fire and open the damper. Then we got a coal augur and it was heaven. Just make sure a bunch of coal was piled on the augur at night, turn down the thermostat and in the morning turn up the thermostat wait for the warmth and then check the augur to make sure there was enough coal until school let out.

A few years later we got natural gas and the romance of coal was over. I still miss the coal truck backing up to the coal chute and dumping a load of heat into the coal bin. And to hear those days are coming back. Great.

]]> By: edh http://www.shopfloor.org/2008/12/27/safe-inexpensive-effective-warming/#comment-7535 edh Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:22:16 +0000 http://www.shopfloor.org/?p=8283#comment-7535 <i>After all, you can’t concede that it’s OK for people to heat their homes with coal but then object to the use of an electric baseboard heater because the electricity is generated from burning coal.</i> Plus, burning of coal at electric power plants is a lot cleaner than burning coal in a stove at your house. After all, you can’t concede that it’s OK for people to heat their homes with coal but then object to the use of an electric baseboard heater because the electricity is generated from burning coal.

Plus, burning of coal at electric power plants is a lot cleaner than burning coal in a stove at your house.

]]> By: Instapundit » Blog Archive » MORE PEOPLE ARE BURNING COAL AT HOME, according to this report. We had a coal furnace when we lived… http://www.shopfloor.org/2008/12/27/safe-inexpensive-effective-warming/#comment-7534 Instapundit » Blog Archive » MORE PEOPLE ARE BURNING COAL AT HOME, according to this report. We had a coal furnace when we lived… Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:14:46 +0000 http://www.shopfloor.org/?p=8283#comment-7534 [...] Some related thoughts: “Environmentalists must surely dislike coal on all fronts; widespread acceptance of coal for [...] [...] Some related thoughts: “Environmentalists must surely dislike coal on all fronts; widespread acceptance of coal for [...]

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