11 Facts About Wood fuel

Wood fuel is a fuel such as firewood, charcoal, chips, sheets, pellets, and sawdust.

Wood fuel can be used for cooking and heating, and occasionally for fueling steam engines and steam turbines that generate electricity.

Total demand for Wood fuel increased considerably with the industrial revolution but most of this increased demand was met by the new Wood fuel source coal, which was more compact and more suited to the larger scale of the new industries.

Magazine "Wood fuel Burning Quarterly" was published for several years before changing its name to "Home Energy Digest" and, subsequently, disappearing.

Wood fuel heat continues to be used in areas where firewood is abundant.

Wood fuel is still used today for cooking in many places, either in a stove or an open fire.

The combustion of fuel wood has been shown to release many organic compounds into the aerosol phase.

The fossil energy consumed in transport is reduced and represents a small fraction of the fossil Wood fuel consumed in producing and distributing heating oil or gas.

Plantation wood is rarely used for firewood, as it is more valuable as timber or wood pulp some wood fuel is gathered from trees planted amongst crops, known as agroforestry.

Wood fuel burning creates more atmospheric CO2 than biodegradation of wood in a forest because by the time the bark of a dead tree has rotted, the log has already been occupied by other plants and micro-organisms which continue to sequester the CO2 by integrating the hydrocarbons of the wood into their own life cycle.

Wood fuel burning advocates claim that properly harvested wood is carbon-neutral, therefore off-setting the negative impact of by-product particles given off during the burning process.