Future Firewood Demand Optimism?

[trigger_andy]

Jeez us!  Do you leave the windows open or is it a mansion! 40!  A poorly insulated 3 bed semi here, heated purely with ~ 12m³ wood
 
Since I'm on gas (but actually burn wood) I don't follow oil prices but know my brother is happy with it now. I was surprised he swapped when he did, but the house is warm and it's not expensive.  He does top up with a few cube through a 7 or 8 kW stove.

Not a mansion but a very poorly insulated single glazed farmhouse with 6 chimneys and full of women. 🤣 Double Glazing should have been installed last summer but “Covid”. One of the stoves does our cooking and hot water sinks on 24/7.

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5 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Tends to be cheap where there's hydropower, renewable too.

Apart from in the UK, where it usually costs more where the hydro and wind power is 

[Billhook]

7 hours ago, neiln said:

Jeez us!  Do you leave the windows open or is it a mansion! 40!  A poorly insulated 3 bed semi here, heated purely with ~ 12m³ wood

 

Since I'm on gas (but actually burn wood) I don't follow oil prices but know my brother is happy with it now. I was surprised he swapped when he did, but the house is warm and it's not expensive.  He does top up with a few cube through a 7 or 8 kW stove.

I used to be on about 12 cu meters, but then I became married and all of a sudden  I am up to Trigger Andy's consumption!

[djbobbins]

It may be that electricity demand causes power cuts and gas limitations 
Has there ever been a gas cut or is that too dangerous?

Not yet, AFAIK. Electricity grids can be restarted (although it’s hard and getting more difficult as generation mix changes) but gas grids and pressurisation would be a ‘mare. A guy in my team at work used to work for a large utility dealing with the ancillary services to National Grid; he always said that the operability of the gas grid would get protected ahead of power.

[Billhook]

Perfect Winter Storm forecast!

No fuel deliveries, gas cut off by Russia for political purposes, coal power stations shut down to reach net zero, electric and gas prices through the roof, nuclear power stations out due to NIMBYISM, law of averages coldest Winter for twenty years, Daily Mail headlines OAPs dying from hypothermia.  
Daily Mail headline

FIREWOOD SAVES THE DAY!!

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[Billhook]

19 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

Round it up to £100!

[Rough Hewn]

Round it up to £100!

Might just leave it outside my local petrol station log box, photo it and send it to the daily mail….🤣[emoji6][emoji106]

[Billhook]

Good start this morning after a 184 mile journey down yesterday in an open classic car to here near Oxford for a Wedding , I need a refuel before I return tomorrow.  Went down to the local BP where there was a mile long queue!  And it ain’t even Winter yet!

[Rough Hewn]

Thank **** for 55 litre barrels of motomix!!! 🤣[emoji106]