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There are many benefits to heating your home with wood.
1. Buying wood from local sources strengthens your local economy.
Wood that is cut and used locally means money does not leave the community. This is extremely beneficial to rural and small town economies where wood heating is most prevalent. This puts money into the local economy while keeping it out of the pockets of multinational corporations. There is no million dollar wood fuel utility or multinational corporation involved in the wood heating business. It is small local businesses that benefit from heating with wood! This includes your local stove and fireplace shop, local chimney sweeper or the farmers, landscapers, and truckers who process and sell firewood.
2. Heating your home with wood provides you with a sense of security and independence.
Wood heating is as much of a lifestyle choice as it is a heating fuel option. Burning wood require participation and effort but in exchange offers commensurate rewards. It provides security during power failures. Conventional heating systems are useless when a storm interrupts your electrical supply but a wood stove or fireplace keeps you warm, cozy, and safe. Wood burning takes effort- similar to tending a garden, cooking a home meal, or performing your own home renovations- But you are always rewarded. Just think about having the ability to provide for your family directly instead of depending on large energy utility suppliers!
3. The act of building and sustaining fire is embedded in our ancient roots.
For all of human history we have built fire for survival: for warmth, food preparation, and companionship. Burning wood brings you closer to nature and the environment. A real wood fire is a focal point and gathering place for family, friends, and conversation. The radiant heat from a wood burning fire heats you like the rays of the sun. It is one of life’s small pleasures, especially on a cold winter’s night! A real wood fire satisfies like no imitation can.
4. Burning wood can save you money.
Wood fuel is cheaper than heating with oil, coal, or electricity. Despite all the hype you may hear about other heating options, it turns out that burning wood in a stove or fireplace is good for the local economy and good to your wallet. A household paying $200 for a cord of seasoned hardwood with a modern, energy efficient stove can get more than 2x the equivalent oil heating value at $4.00 per gallon. Buy your wood unseasoned a year ahead of winter and you can save 3x.
While gas and heating oil prices have risen substantially in recent years, the price of wood has remained steady. Households can reduce their annual bills by a third by installing a stove. In the past, most buyers were those replacing an open fire with a much more fuel-efficient wood burner. The most efficient models achieve 80% efficiency – compared to an open fire at 32%, and a room open gas effect fire at 20% to 55% efficiency.
Sound woodlot management yields firewood that is a byproduct of thinning out non-lumber grade trees. Sustainable woodlot management includes planting a new tree for every tree that is cut down. Renewable means that you don’t deplete the earth’s natural resources. Here in New England we have an abundance of trees! This makes firewood accessible, affordable, and a renewable energy resource.
6. Wood burning yields a zero-net carbon contribution.
Wood is created from energy produced by the sun and this energy is stored within the tree as it grows. When you burn wood you are actually releasing this stored energy. Trees go through a natural cycle of growth and decay. Whether they are burned or are slowly oxidized as they rot on the forest floor, there is a balance between the carbon stored in the tree as it grows and what is released once they die.
Wood burning, unlike fossil fuels (oil, coal), is a zero-net carbon contributor. In other words, using wood as a fuel source does NOT contribute to the Greenhouse Effect. Wood recycles carbon dioxide found in our atmosphere through the cyclical process of absorption, release, and re-absorption. Oil and coal, are fossil fuels that reintroduce long buried carbon into the atmosphere- This is a one way trip. Wood burning releases only a small amount of acid-causing sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.
New advanced technology wood stoves, fireplaces, and furnaces are certified low emission by the US Environmental Protection Agency. They can burn with no visible smoke and create 90% less pollution than those used 30 years ago.
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