Wood making comeback as power source

November 11, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

By Traci Watson, USA TODAY

One of the world’s oldest energy sources is making a comeback.

Across the USA, power plants are turning to wood to make electricity. The move is spurred by state mandates to encourage renewable power and by bills moving through Congress that require more renewable electricity nationwide.

Wood power’s rise is “meteoric,” says William Perritt, editor of Wood Biomass Market Report. One wood-burning plant started up in 2007, seven in 2008 and a dozen in 2009, he says….(Full Story)

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Ostensibly, wood waste will be burned in those wood-burning power plants, but, as the article points out, the demand will soon be for wood chips that are produced by clear-cutting.

That will save the planet?  The only thing that is certain is that it will cause clear-cutting and pollution, besides, burning wood is the burning of carbon and will produce carbon dioxide.

Although Schilda is a real town in Germany, it is also the name of a fictional town inhabited by fools known as “Schildbürger” [Schilda-citizens], see Wise Men of Gotham.

Examples of the actions of the citizens of Schilda:

Schildbuerger Streich

The Germans have a series of allegorical tales in which the citizens of Schilda (the SchildBuerger) embark on a range of schemes that seem, at first sight, logical but on closer inspection turn out to be totally misguided and pointless.

A famous story runs like this – the Schildbuerger have no salt and so must buy it from the nearest big city. This is expensive and the people of Schilda are not rich. They call a town meeting and decide that something must be done. ‘Surely’ says one man “ if we grew our own salt plants there would be an endless supply for us”. The others agreed that this was a great idea. They set about collecting money from all the people to buy two large sacks of salt from the merchants in the big city.
The salt duly arrived and one of the local farmers volunteered his best acreage as a salt field, greedily hoping that he would get a bigger share in return. The salt was ploughed into the soil and the Schilda congratulated themselves on their superb cleverness.
In autumn they returned to harvest their salt plants, but found only a field of nettles. The farmer could never get crops to grow in this field till the end of his days…. (Full Story)

The Invention of the Window

A German Volksbuch (”folks book”) story tells about the difficulties that the citizens of Schilda had, as they were trying to illuminate the interior of their council house.

They went to the extreme of going outside with all types of baskets and bags, in order to collect as much sunlight as they could, and carry it inside the house.

Since that did not work, they also tried removing the house roof. This worked perfectly, until the winter came.

One day, a Schilda man accidentally hit himself against the wall on the way out of the council house. This caused a ray of light to enter inside the house through a tiny wall fissure.

And this is how the Schildans came to think about windows. That simple part of a house, the story says, was never invented but found by mere accident…(Source)

One can’t help but wonder what future generations will write and tell about climate alarmism and the supposed cures for global warming.

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