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Originally Posted by Betonov
http://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...GE&spr_id=2718
We have a wood powered central heating system at home and I found this article interesting for the entire world, not just the US.
At least for wooded countries.
Our yearly heating bill (~€500) is less than half that of the neighbour, that uses heating oil and solar heating panels.
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They've got that here (kinda), it's called bio-mass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass
I guess what they do here is clean out the forest floor of the debris and convert it to bio mass. The debris they remove helps prevent forest fires, or something like that. It seems like a good idea, because they are not cutting down new trees. I'm not sure how large of a population this will support though.