[Greenbuilding] Splitting wood

[Bob Korves]

Hi all,
I am new to the group and have been lurking here just a few days.

It is fun to follow the wood splitting thread.  Do you all know that burning
wood is more than 100% efficient?

You get warm cutting it.
You get warm splitting it.
You get warm stacking it.
You bet warm carrying it.
You get warm burning it.
Loading it in and out of the truck gets bonus points.
Oh, yeah, you also carry out the ashes...

Everything but the chainsaw and the truck (both optional) is powered by
biofuels.

Passive solar, in comparison to expending all that effort dealing with wood
burning, is easy.  Just slowly get up out of the easy chair and move the
curtains to the position deemed correct for the current and/or expected
conditions.  Sit back down and get back to your book...

It doesn't hurt to have wood heat for backup, of course, for those days when
nature is uncooperative.  It is also good for the soul -- mantra while
splitting, meditation while burning.

One person thought that even opening and closing passive solar curtains was
too much work and so he automated them.  Everything worked out fine until
one evening his wife was changing her clothes just as a car turned down the
street and the headlights shined on the photocell...

Just trying to see if I can get thrown off the group with my first post.
8^)
-Bob Korves