There are several traditional poems about firewood, giving advice on which are the best logs to burn on your fire or wood burning stove. Here is just one example from the Hampshire, Berkshire borders, enjoy: Beechwood fires are bright and clear If the logs are kept a year, Chestnut is only good they say, If […]

A handful of countries across the globe produce a significant proportion of their electricity needs from wood or wood wastes. For example, Sweden produces just under 1,500 megawatts of electricity this way and Austria produces 747 megawatts. The Swedish figure represents circa 5 % of the nation’s total installed production capacity. In Finland, compacted pellets […]