James Rogers wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> >
> > A good comparison is to compare the grain production of the US with the
> > wood consumption of building a house. Most contractors and architects
> > will budget in at least 10-20% overage for wood that is waste cuttings:
> > its those ends of short wood that are useless, or wood that arrives with
> > splits, knots, warps, theft, etc.. Using the current wastage of the US
> > grain market, which deals with forces of nature that are far harder to
> > estimate for and control than a supply of well cut wood, the contractors
> > would have to improve their efficiency by a factor of two to four to be
> > as good and efficient with their wood.
>
> This is a pretty good point. The grain producers are quite creative at
> finding things to do with their waste product locally (to avoid incurring
> transport costs); dumping it is their last choice. Seeing as how U.S.
> production of wheat and corn alone is on the order of 400-500 million
> *tons* a year, a couple million tons of loss is actually quite acceptable
> if you ask me.
I suppose it would burn pretty well in a coal-fired power plant- and the
stack gas might smell a bit better...
-- Doug Jones Rocket Plumber, XCOR Aerospace http://www.xcor-aerospace.com
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