Home heating oil

[goddessfarmer]

On 10/02/01 the tank was filled.
on 11/10/03 the tank was topped off with 102.9 Gal
on 10/17/06 (today) we purchased 134.5 gal to fill the tank.
Firewood may be hard work, but I'm happy with it.

Comments

[goddessfarmer.livejournal.com]

I wasn't trying to imply that everyone should or even could heat with wood. We use it because we can, as you say. One of the biggest problems is overpopulation and our population distribution. Our wood heat would be much more efficient (per capita) if we had as many people living here as the house could fit - say 2 more comfortably, or 3-5 more in a severe housing crises or farm labor necessity. While we americians each insist on having our own bedroom and multiple grand common spaces in each household we will continue to use up all of our resources much faster than mother nature can replenish them. Other contributers are mass-transit fobia, desire for suburbia, desire for non-local foods, and so forth. I don't claim to be perfect, far from it in fact, but these are things I do think about.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

if you have the property, and you rely on wood for "stuff", you replant the trees. i have some basic data in my woodlore books, but suffice to say that one can fairly readily compute usage to acreage and replanting schedules, adjustments may have to be made, but a definite cycle can be accomplished.

one adjustment of course is downsizing the living areas if required, or adjusting what you feel is a comfortable level of heat, wear more clothes, insulate more; large old houses don't tend to be cheap to heat regardless of the methods - ditching a given building isn't out of line either - one day it may come to that. also the method of heating.

i have friends that live up north, they use an external (ie outside) water jacketed furnace. it's VERY efficient. the furnace provides all kinds of hot water for all kinds of uses, the least of which is heating. stoke it every few days. nice stuff. also clean, as there is no burning inside the dwelling.

gas/oil requires no effort but money really. wood and other methods are more labor intensive, but keep your warmer in other ways too :)

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