Not exact matches
And when we burn that
wood, we
turn that chemical - bond
energy back into light and heat.
The heart of the system is a south - facing sun space within the envelope that is dominated by windows and which therefore soaks up lots of solar
energy, filling the house's
wood walls with thermal
energy that in
turn radiates into the primary living space.
Even if the hockey stick of tree growth is not exaggerated, all it tells us is that trees are consuming more
energy and CO2 and
turning it into
wood.
Faced with the need to find an
energy source sufficiently dense to fit on site, developers have
turned en masse to
wood (or biomass as they prefer to call it).
the
energy to
turn the
wood into paper is well worth ensuring many of those fibers get reycled many more times.
Considering primary sources of
energy, we find that coal replaced
wood and hay, and oil in
turn beat coal for the lead position in the world power game.