Birch tar/oil possible fuel ?
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Well, y'know....mankind's the cooking ape, the fire using ape. Learning how to make fuel, light, etc., is kind of hardwired into our genes.
If the trees are down anyway, then there's fuel and bark and potential all just sitting there.
I'd play with it
Being nosey and wanting to know how is also hardwired into our genes
M
If the trees are down anyway, then there's fuel and bark and potential all just sitting there.
I'd play with it
Being nosey and wanting to know how is also hardwired into our genes
M
As pointed out we are off topic, but my ideology is to gather the resource in a sustainable manner, i.e. plant 30 trees (given that the tree grows to a desired size in 30 years, so a fast growing tree like birch), plus one each year after the 30 years and harvest one tree each year. Each of the trees have the same amount of carbon in them and therefore act as a carbon sink taking the C02 back from the atmosphere and into the tree. It is a much quicker process than the analogy of petrol.
It's is worth mentioning that I am not condoning the plans that have been proposed by Owen Patterson to create offsetting from our ancient woodlands. This is because of the obvious reason of the interfere with other species which are dependent upon and form a symbiotic relationship with ancient woodlands.
However as Skaukraft has pointed out it would require a fire to extract the oil so the process of extraction would cause further C02. But I'm sure nearly all of the people on this thread sit around fires, so it would just be a case of placing the tins on a fire the next time a reason to light a fire arises.
I hope one day I have enough land to plant enough tress, possibly ash trees (although ash die-back is now springing to mind!), so that I can carry out this principle myself in order to harvest fire wood.
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Good point
Not a clue
That said, white birch is used for the birch oil that is sold to clinical aromatherapists, and I have no idea why it is preferred over the other varieties. Is it somehow 'cleaner' ?
Maybe John Fenna might know ? he's one.
It's almost all silver birch around here, so though I know what I get from them re sap and bark, etc., I have nothing to compare them to.
Interesting topic and thread
M
Not a clue
That said, white birch is used for the birch oil that is sold to clinical aromatherapists, and I have no idea why it is preferred over the other varieties. Is it somehow 'cleaner' ?
Maybe John Fenna might know ? he's one.
It's almost all silver birch around here, so though I know what I get from them re sap and bark, etc., I have nothing to compare them to.
Interesting topic and thread
M
Good point
Not a clue
That said, white birch is used for the birch oil that is sold to clinical aromatherapists, and I have no idea why it is preferred over the other varieties. Is it somehow 'cleaner' ?
Maybe John Fenna might know ? he's one.
It's almost all silver birch around here, so though I know what I get from them re sap and bark, etc., I have nothing to compare them to.
Interesting topic and thread
M
Sorry - I am clueless too - and none of my books help!
