Do you want a modern home with a heating solution that is also safe for the environment? If so then continue reading as we take a look at some CO2 neutral products like Brænde and Briketter.
Brænde is firewood (usually seasoned oak) which is cut into small pieces that fits into your fireplace or stove. It has been dried so that it contains less than 20% of water. Briketter is a specific brand of wooden briquettes, which is made from sawdust and tiny pieces of wood, which has been heated up to around 350 degrees celcius, in order to make the resin has been made soft and liquified. Then it’s all pressed together under a high pressure, so that all the warm resis is squeezed out among all the pieces of sawdust, so that when it cools down, it will be a firm square of almost solid wood. You can read more about this process here on Behance Briketter.
Why use Brænde or Briketter?
There are 2 good reasons why we should consider using Brænde and Briketter for heating our home. The first is that it’s a cheap and effective way of getting heat with. It’s a lot cheaper than electrical heating and even cheaper than gas heating. But the main reason is that we should all think about more the environment, and this is where Brænde and Briketter places a big role. Because both products are made entirely of wood, they don’t add any addtional Co2 to our environment. Of course they release a certain amount of Co2 when you burn them, but it’s the same amount as if you let them rot out in the nature. And don’t forget that while the tree was growing, it absorbed a lot of Co2 from the atmosphere. So it’s a very Co2 neautral way of heating your home, compared to oil, gas or electricity.
Other “Green” alternatives
Since heating your home with brænde or briketter, or any other types of firewood for that matter, can be quite the work sometimes, some people have been looking else where for a green way of keeping their homes warm. For instance a lot of people are now using the sun in combination with solar panels to heat their homes. This is a good way, since it doesn’t effect the environment much (execept by the production of the solar panelns), but it’s still a bit more expensive than many of the other was of generating heat with. The same goes for earth heating, where you add some pipes a few meters down in the ground and use the earts heat to bring some warm into your home. It’s a great way of getting some clean heating, but like with solar power, it’s also a bit to expensive to use for many people.
Green energi is something that has a high priority and there more who is going to support it, the clearer a planet we will eventually get.
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