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Which is the least fuel that gives of emmisions, electricity, gas. oil, wood
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Electricity isn't a fuel. We must create electricity using a fuel.
Why do you ask?
I'd hazard a guess that gas is the cleanest / least emmisions fuel you mention, since it can be burnt within homes with no direct flue with few ill effects.
Why do you ask?
I'd hazard a guess that gas is the cleanest / least emmisions fuel you mention, since it can be burnt within homes with no direct flue with few ill effects.
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Crafty said:
I have been told that wood is the cleanest and gives off less co2 emmissions can anyone cleryfy this
solar power.
wash clothes - leave out in sun - nice and dry and didn't cost a penny to heat them up.
sun-dried tomatoes, fish etc - nice...
wind power.
sailing ships, dinghys, washing lines again..
it's only when you use a stonking diesel powered digger to extract precious minerals to make into a solar power converter that the energy:carbon footprint ratio gets c*cked up. but that's OK co it's America and they don't give a fosters anyway.
but a big block V8 is so much more funnnnnnnnnnnn - long live Clarkson
wash clothes - leave out in sun - nice and dry and didn't cost a penny to heat them up.
sun-dried tomatoes, fish etc - nice...
wind power.
sailing ships, dinghys, washing lines again..
it's only when you use a stonking diesel powered digger to extract precious minerals to make into a solar power converter that the energy:carbon footprint ratio gets c*cked up. but that's OK co it's America and they don't give a fosters anyway.
but a big block V8 is so much more funnnnnnnnnnnn - long live Clarkson
wood fires are fairly dirty in terms of smoke, soot and tar; but the carbon emission is about net-nil, because the trees sucked the carbon out of the air to grow, all you are doing when you burn it are putting it back where it came from over the last 10/20/whatever years.
If, for every tree you burn, you grown another of the same size, there is no change to the carbon load in the atmosphere.
p.s. if you didn't burn that wood, but left it to rot, the carbon would be returned to the atmosphere anyway as the wood broke down and was eaten by insects and funghi.
If however you carried it down a dry coal mine and left it there for a few million years, the carbon would be locked up until someone dug it up and burned it.
If, for every tree you burn, you grown another of the same size, there is no change to the carbon load in the atmosphere.
p.s. if you didn't burn that wood, but left it to rot, the carbon would be returned to the atmosphere anyway as the wood broke down and was eaten by insects and funghi.
If however you carried it down a dry coal mine and left it there for a few million years, the carbon would be locked up until someone dug it up and burned it.
