[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: Splitting wood

[Lawrence Lile]

I use both passive solar, and wood.  The wood part is used in the
morning to take off a little chill.  I wouldn't bother, but my sweetie
doesn't take too kindly to chilly mornings.  The house is swinging about
8-9 degrees F from the warmest part of the afternoon to the coolest part
of the early morning right now, soon we'll either need more window
insulation or start banking a fire in the evening.  

I don't have all the thermal window covers finished, and it seemed like
quite a hassle to take them up and down until I timed it.  I put in a
piece of toast, took down the window covers, and had time to sit down
and take a few sips of morning tea before the toast was done.  I think
it was about 30 seconds.  

There are few things more enjoyable in life than sitting in front of a
warm fire on a cold day, and most of those things I don't think I should
mention on this list lest I get thrown off with Bob.  ;-)



Lawrence Lile, PE, LEED AP
Project Solutions Engineering

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-----Original Message-----
From: greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org
[mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Bob Korves
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 9:03 AM
To: Greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org
Subject: [BULK] Re: [Greenbuilding] Splitting wood
Importance: Low

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 


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