[Terrapreta] evil ethanol

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Max,

I heat my house with an outside wood burning furnace.  It heats water that is pumped inside past a heat exchanger.  I have had this furnace outside for 6 years.  I live in Minnesota, USA.  It gets down to -30F here once in a while and always below 0F for long periods during the winter.

My house is 4200 sq feet, a log house built with solid oak logs.  The logs came from Missouri, USA.  I have burned 10-12 full cords every winter since I have had the stove.  I get one/two loads, 40 foot trailers with 10-11 full 4' x 4' x 8' cords on it.  I buy the wood as 8' logs, sometimes up to 20" diameter.  I started out paying $52 US per cord.  They are shipped about 50 miles, I think, from Siren, Wisconsin (a little town in the state next door).  This past year I paid $75/cord.

You can pay $130 for a face cord.  It will be cut, split and stacked in your driveway for that.  That is the price difference. The labor to prepare the wood for use.  It takes me and my 17 year old son about 6 weekends, working all weekend

Regards,

SKB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MFH<mailto:mfh01 at bigpond.net.au> 
  To: 'Gerald Van Koeverden'<mailto:vnkvrdn at yahoo.ca> ; 'terra pretta group'<mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:05 PM
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] evil ethanol


  Gerald,

   

  Apparently a "cord" of wood can be different volumes.

   

  For example, a 'stove' cord is 4ft x 8ft x 12" and a 'face' cord is 4ft x 9ft x 16", whereas a full cord is 4ft x 8ft x 4ft.

   

  Do you know which is used in the Excel spreadsheet?  If it's a full cord then $130 sounds too cheap. 

   

  Max H

   

   


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  From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org<mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org> [mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Gerald Van Koeverden
  Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 5:08 AM
  To: terra pretta group
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] evil ethanol

   

  Sorry.

   

  Lost the actual link. Here's the whole program

   

   

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