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Nate Hagens on November 9, 2006 - 3:07pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I agree with that - a good friend is engaging the populace their to switch over to clean burning efficient wood stoves. But most people still use NG. IF everyone switches in next 5-8 years then I agree with you. Right now if everyone burned wood it would be a problem.

By the way - the vast majority of pellets being made in BC (and now they have enormous capacity due to pine beetle killing of pine trees), goes to europe. I dont think many residents there use pellets - though it would seem to make sense to do so.

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obdacher on November 9, 2006 - 4:48pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Net of taxes the pellet price here in Austria is higher than the heating oil price, with taxes it is about 80% of the cost of heating oil. The Austrian paper and lumber industry is resource constrained, a big reason for the wood pellet price increases over the last year. The new craze are heat pumps, at least in new homes with high insulating standards. The heating load  of a modern house  typically is less than 250 Watt per degree Kelvin. These miniscule loads make ovens or central heating with oil, gas  or wood pellets uneconomical. The electricity cost for a heat pump at the moment is about half the wood pellet cost for the season.
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