Reply #9: Oh. I see.

[NNadir]

We have all this talk about the future...again.

Investiment...

By such and such a date...

I see also that you haven't become any better at counting. Maybe you think that we all believe that there are 33,000 homes in Maine.

Actually, the population of Maine is something like 1.3 million and 80% of the heating systems in that state - the largest fraction in the country - are heated using dangerous fossil fuel oil.

As for New Jersey, we have a problem here with wood burning pollution and I confess that I am a part of that. I have been burning downed trees in my yard for more than ten years now, splitting all the wood by hand using my renewably powered axe. I know that the pollution is not good, but I reason that the carbon dioxide would at least, escape any way, since the wood is already down. Thus I reason that the damage caused by the pollutants is probably less than the pollution that would be caused by burning dangerous natural gas. Since 50% of my electricity is nuclear however, it may be that the electric heater is even cleaner. I try to use as little gas as I can, relying more on electricity and wood, which in my case, happens to be free.

Now, one can, in fact, have people who are not energy retards who come from Maine. We don't have any such people here now, but a while back there was a fellow or gal named "MaineGreen" who was quite bright and well informed. I don't think he went around drinking much Allen's Coffee Brandy with 40 or 50 people who drove over to his estate for local turkey, but I don't know. I liked that correspondent much, and enjoyed talking with him or her.

As for all this stuff about "seasoning," I note that next year the wood companies will invariably cut more wood. Happy. Happy. Maybe they can get some wood shipped in from the lumber companies in Sumatra that have been cutting wood like crazy to make palm oil plantations for our German pals.

I do note that the indoor burning of biomass, according to the World Health Organization, causes about 4 million deaths per year. You couldn't care less.

Maine consumes about half an exajoule of energy per year:

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/state/state_energy_profiles.cfm?sid=ME

This is about 5 times as much energy as is produced by Cameroon, which has more than 10 times more people as Maine. Cameroon's forests - it's a renewable energy paradise that Maine may aspire to be - are disappearing at a rate of 0.9% per year.

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTEEI/Data/20799687/Cameroon.pdf

According to Professor Daniel Gbetnkom at the University of Yaounde II,

In Cameroon, the supply of fuel wood from forests accounts for over 60% of the energy consumed and has been increasing at a rate of 2.5% per year since 1974-1976 (Cleaver, 1992, P.65). The forestry sector occupies the first place in export tonnage and third place in foreign earnings...

http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/2004-GPRaHDiA/papers/2p-Gbetnkom-CSAE2004.pdf

You couldn't care less.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/tablee1.xls

Maine has no intention of replacing its dangerous fossil fuels with biomass and all the attempts to sweep issues of scale under the rug to create a misleading impression that it is doing so are meaningless frauds.

Now, you can whine all you want about New Jersey - and I am aware of the efforts of your little anti-science cult to attempt to poison my kids with your fucking particulates and other carcinogens by attempting the destruction of our Oyster Creek nuclear reactor - right now we have some of the cleanest electricity in North America. In fact, our per capita production of carbon dioxide (factoring in our population of 8.7 million vs your population of 1.3 million) is 79% of what Mainers produce, mostly because we rely heavily on nuclear power and Maine is just a fossil fuel hole.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/ggrpt/excel/tbl_statefuel.xls

If you don't know what you're talking about, make stuff up.