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Old 4th July 2011, 12:05
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Originally Posted by G-CPTN View Post
The swimming-pool leisure-complex in our nearby town is heated exclusively by 'biomass' (wood-chips that arrive in bulk-tippers that dump it into a chute to the cellar from where it is moved mechanically automatically to the boiler.
Two things, firstly, who is going to sit at said window and watch a boiler burning away?

Secondly, if as we have been told, wood is getting scarce (paper shortage?) why is it ok to chip it and burn it like that instead of in logs?
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