Make Smoke, Burn Smoke
Doug Brethower
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$15.37
Size: 6" x 9"
Binding: Perfect Bound
ISBN: 9781620306253
The "aha moment" for the awesome energy of wood followed an historic ice storm in 2007 that crushed huge swaths of the tree canopy across Southwest, Missouri. Traveling to clear the damage as gas prices jumped, seeing the smile on the face of my eight year old son in his first experience with a 4-wheeler, I began pondering his energy future.
Putting a pencil to the btu energy we cut into the ground to rot, the numbers did not add up to sanity. We used expensive energy, to waste free energy to the tune of almost the average selling price per acre.
In my energy past, two dollars bought ten gallons of gas. Local farm work paid two dollars per hour. A road worthy fixer upper vehicl ...