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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Not to worry John</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pay the local fellow in cash - the kind that folds!<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Don't argue about the wood - and take it when he has it.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">His wife will be phoning asking when you can take a load.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Works for me!<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy the rain<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paul<br/></span>
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<br/>> On December 24, 2015 at 12:08 PM John and Nhung <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca> wrote:
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<br/>> Yeah, I get the impression that the main problem with the Point Tupper
<br/>> monster is its size. A smaller operation might have fit in quite nicely.
<br/>> Of course, the NewPage surprise added to the mess, but mess it is, and I
<br/>> hope the government ad the operators can ramp back its biomass consumption
<br/>> to a more sensible, sustainable scale.
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<br/>> Fingers crossed for a mild winter, with minimum demand for firewood! All
<br/>> this tells me we still need to take solar heat and other renewable sources
<br/>> more seriously.
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<br/>> -----Original Message-----
<br/>> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
<br/>> On Behalf Of Stephen Shaw
<br/>> Sent: December 24, 2015 11:59 AM
<br/>> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
<br/>> Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Red Herring & Forestry
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<br/>> Ed Darby? Abraham Darby I around 1709 modified the blast furnace that had
<br/>> already been evolving for over a millenium, to consume coke instead of
<br/>> charcoal as the source of carbon that formed the carbon monoxide used to
<br/>> reduce raw iron oxide to pig iron, the starting point for other iron
<br/>> products. Charcoal gave a purer iron product, but making coke from coal
<br/>> proved much cheaper than making charcoal from harvested trees, by then a
<br/>> scarce commodity. For both charcoal and coke, a main byproduct was/is CO2
<br/>> gas from the finally oxidised carbon, released into the atmosphere. The
<br/>> cheaper Darby coke method, later improved, caught on rapidly: a gnomic irony
<br/>> of this is that while saving some of the CO2-consuming much diminished
<br/>> forests from approaching extinction, it led rapidly to much greater iron
<br/>> production via burning fossil carbon that underpinned the Industrial
<br/>> Revolution in Britain, which in turn led to ever increasing CO2 emissions,
<br/>> eventually worldwide.
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<br/>> On a lesser point not covered by reporter Aaron Beswick's article in the C-H
<br/>> that Dave referred to, if you had tried to get a few cords of 16" cut
<br/>> firewood for your wood stove in early 2015, as we did, you would have found
<br/>> that initially, none of the local suppliers around Halifax could get any
<br/>> logs, because they believed that such wood that had been harvested was
<br/>> nearly all going directly to Point Tupper biomass monster, because that had
<br/>> been built too large for the available supply of so-called 'waste' wood and
<br/>> bark. Central planning at its very best. Our supplier eventually got some
<br/>> logs from New Brunswick, but the price went up considerably.
<br/>> Steve
<br/>> ________________________________________
<br/>> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] on
<br/>> behalf of David & Alison Webster [dwebster@glinx.com]
<br/>> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 7:12 PM
<br/>> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
<br/>> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Red Herring & Forestry
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<br/>> Hi Nick & All, Dec 23, 2015
<br/>> I have only few minutes so will deal with the "gnomic" question first
<br/>> and return later to the rest.
<br/>> It was a new word to me so I had to consult a dictionary which referred
<br/>> me to sententious= Aphoristic, pithy, given to the use of maxims; (of
<br/>> persons) = fond of pompous moralizing; maxim= A general truth drawn from
<br/>> science or experience.
<br/>> I think we should both plead guilty to the "gnomic" charge and be
<br/>> flattered. As for the "pompous moralizing"; I am frequently inclined to
<br/>> quote the King James Bible but then remember: "Be not righteous over much,
<br/>> neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?";
<br/>> Ecclesiastes 7:16; and decide not to.