Most towns in this country have a ban on old fashioned coal for environmental reasons , but I wonder really how much these processed coal nuggets save the environment .
First off the smokeless coal isnt water proof like regular coal is , its supplied in sealed plastic bags but thats not a gaurantee of moisture content ,which is linked to how well it burns , second me and other people have noticed a very high weight in left over ash and un burnt cinder from it . This left over is typycally put into landfill with other domestic waste and were paying by weight so its another associated cost that people dont often figure into their heating bill . The exact composition of these processed nuggets is anyones guess , but I wouldnt be surprised if waste oil/solvents and sand are part of the mix . Wood burns down to a few % of its original weight and whats left over is fairly green/garden friendly in environmental terms , whats left over after burning coal is a hazardous material by almost any modern standards , so it belongs at the appropriate kind of lined pit landfill with even higher disposal cost per weight if we were to do things right . With one bag of smokeless I burned recently I was left with 20% of the original weight of the product in ashes, it all comes as a bit of a shock as I was used to burning timber all along .
Commercial forestry has plenty of environmental downsides that tend to counteract out the possibilities of doing it sustainably , the place below looked like it was struck by napalm a few years back after the bulldozers rolled in , the landscape is still trying to repair the damage .
First off the smokeless coal isnt water proof like regular coal is , its supplied in sealed plastic bags but thats not a gaurantee of moisture content ,which is linked to how well it burns , second me and other people have noticed a very high weight in left over ash and un burnt cinder from it . This left over is typycally put into landfill with other domestic waste and were paying by weight so its another associated cost that people dont often figure into their heating bill . The exact composition of these processed nuggets is anyones guess , but I wouldnt be surprised if waste oil/solvents and sand are part of the mix . Wood burns down to a few % of its original weight and whats left over is fairly green/garden friendly in environmental terms , whats left over after burning coal is a hazardous material by almost any modern standards , so it belongs at the appropriate kind of lined pit landfill with even higher disposal cost per weight if we were to do things right . With one bag of smokeless I burned recently I was left with 20% of the original weight of the product in ashes, it all comes as a bit of a shock as I was used to burning timber all along .
Commercial forestry has plenty of environmental downsides that tend to counteract out the possibilities of doing it sustainably , the place below looked like it was struck by napalm a few years back after the bulldozers rolled in , the landscape is still trying to repair the damage .
