LOL

Right you are about fireplaces, but mine were built in the '80s. My biggest worry is the control freaks here in the Peoples Republic of New York have yearly been proposing the state legislature outlaw wood burning. Fortunately they have not succeeded - funny how the control freaks can continuously press for their agenda and once they get it all discussion ends. My wife is from the North Country up on the St. Lawrence where winter temps can easily go down to -20 or -30 many times throughout the winter and wood heat supplementation for many is a must.

LOL, flatulence collection may be needed to burn for heat later!

So, if we could burn the ILLEGAL ALIENS as fuel, could we get carbon credits for BOTH reduction of their carbon footprints, and using a RENEWABLE source that shows no signs of stopping?

Asking for a Friend with wood-burning stoves, and ACRES of land who might need to spare a few trees... LOL

Wood warms you not just once, not just twice, but several times. Cutting is best done in winter.
(1) Cut it down. (Many videos out there that'll show you how to NOT do it!)
(2) Remove branches.
(3) Cut to stove length.
-- 1, 2, and 3 can be done with an axe or two-man saw if you don't have a chain saw.
(4) Split, using wedges, not your axe.
(5) Stack to dry.
(4.5) Build a shelter to keep the wood dry.
(6) Carry dry wood to stove.
(7) Burn wood and feel warm.

1 through 5 are all hard work and will keep you warm.

Use appropriate methods to avoid chimney fires. A friend (W1ZBE, SK) had a free-standing chimney made of firebrick, set away from his house. To clean it he would start a chimney fire in it. Most of the rest of us hire (or ought to hire) a chimney sweep. If you hear something that sounds like a freight train running through your house, you have a chimney fire.

If you get to doing large-scale harvesting of wood, you can get a couple of horses who know how to snake logs through the forest. You only need two men, one hitches the log to the horse out in the forest, and the other unhitches at the destination and sends the horse back. No need to try to lead the horse if he knows the job.

That sounds wonderful.

"When the elite stop using 10X energy that us working slobs use..." Good test, but the litmus test for me to revisit my thinking is when the elite start massively selling, as opposed to accumulating, ocean beach front property.

Do you believe that the so-called carbon footprint is actually environmentally bad? If I am not mistaken there was more CO2 in the atmosphere in earlier times, maybe much more. Also, how are we to know whether the methods for measuring CO2 are correct, and how are we to know that the level of CO2 drives the global temperature? And what IS global temperature? "It feels hotter now than is did (n) years ago," seems rather unscientific.

A sane country would adjust its spending, pay off its debt, and stop printing money. Unfortunately, the Democrats and their RINO counterparts are anything but sane. I expect them to intentionally flush.