Good morning,
I just received a steep price increase from my energy provider enercity, raising the cost to 15 cents per kWh starting in August. That’s really tough, and I think prices will rise even further.
It’s a strange feeling to be thrown back so quickly into an energy supply situation where you have to figure out how to keep the house warm. It seems to me that the government has given up on the goal of enabling everyone to adequately cover at least their basic needs.
Goodbye central supply structures; now the winner is whoever has solar panels and a heat pump in their new build, while the others are left out.
Welcome back, coal heating 😕
Frustrated regards,
I just received a steep price increase from my energy provider enercity, raising the cost to 15 cents per kWh starting in August. That’s really tough, and I think prices will rise even further.
It’s a strange feeling to be thrown back so quickly into an energy supply situation where you have to figure out how to keep the house warm. It seems to me that the government has given up on the goal of enabling everyone to adequately cover at least their basic needs.
Goodbye central supply structures; now the winner is whoever has solar panels and a heat pump in their new build, while the others are left out.
Welcome back, coal heating 😕
Frustrated regards,
motorradsilke schrieb:
But dead wood decomposes and releases the same amount.You can also make use of the tree without burning it.
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motorradsilke15 Jul 2022 07:41chand1986 schrieb:
This also applies to coal, oil, and gas. Why is THAT an argument FOR fresh wood if fossil wood is problematic?Because wood regrows much faster. Can oil, coal, or gas be formed in 20 to 30 years? Wood can.D
Deliverer15 Jul 2022 07:42motorradsilke schrieb:
But dead wood decomposes and releases the same amount.First, that is incorrect (keyword: humus formation), second, the wood didn’t have to die in the first place, and third, the wood could easily have been used more beneficially for another 500 years instead of being burned DIRECTLY.M
motorradsilke15 Jul 2022 07:43x0rzx0rz schrieb:
You can also make use of the tree without burning it.Probably not the trees damaged by bark beetles.But you can simply do both.
motorradsilke schrieb:
Probably not the trees damaged by bark beetles.
But you can simply do both.Wood affected by beetles can also be processed. Wood isn’t only used for premium parquet flooring.C
chand198615 Jul 2022 07:50motorradsilke schrieb:
Because wood regrows much faster. Can oil, coal, or gas form in 20 to 30 years? Wood can. YES!
Oil and coal were once wood or animal matter that formed within a few decades, just as it still happens today. Therefore, during those few decades, CO2 was absorbed, just like wood absorbs CO2 while growing now.
The fact that it was later transformed over millions of years and then stored for millions more does not change that. The CO2 had already been captured beforehand.
In the end – to put it simply – it is claimed that burning fresh wood is better in terms of CO2 emissions than burning old wood.
That is logically incorrect. Both are equivalent. So either both are bad or both are acceptable. We need to be honest about that.
(I also sometimes burn wood fires. But I know it’s not better.)
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