!!! PELLET HEATING: Forest floor is bleeding !!! IMPORTANT !!!

Hello everyone, I’m sorry that I chose such a quasi "sensational" headline.

I’ve had a bad feeling about pellet heating systems from the beginning, and the fact that they couldn’t be "CO²-neutral," as is always so boldly advertised to boost sales, was already subtly suggested to me by my school knowledge.

- That by no means, for God’s sake, means that you should switch back to oil or gas – it’s clear that these resources are finite! – Not to mention that one should really do more important things with the "rest," that is also clear... When I think about how many everyday things are made from oil, it makes me sick to think that they won’t be around for much longer. (I hope the patents for "substitutes" are already all available and are only being held back by the oil moguls and business bosses until there’s no other choice...)

But that wood is also finite, and soils cannot be “squeezed” over and over again, meaning they can’t constantly produce new little trees, has already been proven by many negative examples in agriculture (it should be called plundering nature).

The soil is dead and needs a longer time to regenerate.

- In new construction, it is really advisable, as the article says:
For example, install a solar thermal system, with which you can heat a good part of your domestic hot water, and as SUPPORT (not as a sole heating system) then something like a pellet heating system (or firewood, wood chips).

It goes without saying that it should be a well-insulated low-energy house, so that eventually you get back (or save) the many thousands spent on the systems.

Pay attention to a stove/fireplace with a very good particle filter.

You owe all this to yourselves and your descendants, and generally in the sense of an overall ethical responsibility.

- I’m sorry if anyone feels offended by my somewhat "moralizing" contribution – I am not someone who wants to raise a moral finger, but only wants to pass on information.

What you do with it, of course, is your business.

Best regards Honigkuchen

Hello Honey Cake,

thank you for your very good contribution, you bring in aspects here that most certainly have not thought about yet.

That puts the whole thing in a completely different light..

Thank you Klaus

Hi,

I wouldn't see it that strictly, especially the trees always ensure that the nutrients return to the soil with the leaves they lose.

So it's a cycle that sustains itself, isn't it :confused:

best regards Mausi

Hi,

I wouldn’t see it that strictly, especially the trees ensure with the leaves they lose that nutrients repeatedly return to the soil.

So it’s a cycle that sustains itself, isn’t it :confused:

Best regards Mausi

yeah sure, but what about the coniferous trees, they don’t have leaves?
How is the soil supposed to recover then?

Best regards Lauscher

What should one use to heat in an environmentally friendly way then?

I was so happy that there were finally these pellets, before I always had to chop wood laboriously.

But there are surely studies that refute that!!!

all the best Brause

Hi,

no matter how you do it, it's always wrong, that's unfortunately always the case!!!
If you have a heating system, it has to run on something and with that you always harm the environment.

Whether you consume raw materials or pollute the air, how are you supposed to decide??

Regards Blau :eek: