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henapple
henapple Posts: 16,025
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I've been out of pocket for a while. Did someone say lump is bad for the environment?
Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN 
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  • dlk7
    dlk7 Posts: 1,053
    It doesn't seem to be bad for my environment.  Had Better Homes and Garden's Grill It best ever grilled burgers tonight and I didn't hear the environment complain one little bit.

    Two XL BGEs - So Happy!!!!

    Waunakee, WI

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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,748
    @henapple-lump and environment or was that home theater...missed the knock-on effect!  But will work for food and beer!
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • flemster
    flemster Posts: 269
    Circle of life. Carbon bound together by the trees, thus storing energy. Charcoal made releasing mostly water back to the atmosphere. I burn the charcoal and dump the ash onto my compost pile under a tree. Tree takes up carbon and binds it.... Somebody will whine about CO2 emissions, but far smaller footprint than an SUV
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  • TEH68
    TEH68 Posts: 62
    Well, if we are cooking more red meat, aren't we cutting down on the cow flagellance, which they complained was killimg the ozone layer?!
    Large, Small & Mini. Marietta, GA Go DAWGS!!
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  • henapple
    henapple Posts: 16,025
    Killing the environment...sucks. I'm egging anyway. Might as well go eating great food.
    Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN 
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  • TEH68
    TEH68 Posts: 62
    Not buying the argument. Show me the scientific evidence supporting the conclusion we are influencing the environment. Does not exist. Sorry, off my soapbox now.
    Large, Small & Mini. Marietta, GA Go DAWGS!!
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,355
    edited January 2014
    At the risk of sounding like a "Green", its becoming a bad problem for some of us.  Here's beautiful Salt Lake City, during an Inversion:
     
     
    An inversion happens when an area is in a "bowl", between mountain ranges; the air on the valley floor can't get a chance to warm up and mix with the warmer, upper air.  If there's a city in that valley (me!) the pollution also cools and stays "down here"; it takes a winter storm to blow the pollution out. Right now we're under restrictions of using "fireplaces, firepits and grills".  
     
    Last week the pollution pileup got so bad for me I had to drive off to Evanston WY for a couple days, just to breath fresh air, I had a sore throat recently.  It didn't help that the "non-smoking" room I'd paid for reeked of tobacco; today I'm pretty sick and trying to lay low.   
     
    This really sucks.  I was planning on retiring here, but the pollution is so bad I can't stay here during the really cold parts of winter (the cold itself doesn't bother me).  Anyone in AZ got a cabin they want to sell?  
    :(

    “I'll have what she's having."  

        -Rob Reiner's mother!   

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • henapple
    henapple Posts: 16,025
    I understand the pollution and sorry to hear you're feeling sick. ..but burning lump?
    Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN 
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,355
    I know its almost nothing, but, what else?  You can't restrict driving much.  Everyone needs heat.  And don't even think about restricting growth/construction around here…  :-S

    “I'll have what she's having."  

        -Rob Reiner's mother!   

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    TEH68 said:

    Well, if we are cooking more red meat, aren't we cutting down on the cow flagellance, which they complained was killimg the ozone layer?!

    Cow flagellation?

    I didn't know cows were such pious Catholics.
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  • TEH68
    TEH68 Posts: 62
    @eggcelsior, HA! I guess I invented a new word. Hope you got the impression I was, inartfully (or inartFARTly) trying to convey!
    Large, Small & Mini. Marietta, GA Go DAWGS!!
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  • henapple
    henapple Posts: 16,025
    Another "Bushism, ...like strategory?
    Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN 
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  • MaskedMarvel
    MaskedMarvel Posts: 3,420
    Burning WOOD is carbon neutral. Trees breathe in carbon. My question was how lump is made - if burning wood is used as the heat source then it's a carbon neutral process. If fossil fuels are used (natural gas, propane, tires, etc), then making lump is bad for the environment, prima face. The lump itself remains neutral.
    Large BGE and Medium BGE
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  • stlcharcoal
    stlcharcoal Posts: 4,759
    MaskedMarvel said:

    Burning WOOD is carbon neutral. Trees breathe in carbon. My question was how lump is made - if burning wood is used as the heat source then it's a carbon neutral process. If fossil fuels are used (natural gas, propane, tires, etc), then making lump is bad for the environment, prima face. The lump itself remains neutral.

    I responded to your question in another thread, but apparently "the powers that be" did not like the thread........It did not bump to top, and its now buried on page 3-4. I posted the links to two charcoal making videos as well. I would repost them, but our internet is down and I cannot do it from my phone.
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  • MaskedMarvel
    MaskedMarvel Posts: 3,420
    stlcharcoal said:
    Burning WOOD is carbon neutral. Trees breathe in carbon. My question was how lump is made - if burning wood is used as the heat source then it's a carbon neutral process. If fossil fuels are used (natural gas, propane, tires, etc), then making lump is bad for the environment, prima face. The lump itself remains neutral.
    I responded to your question in another thread, but apparently "the powers that be" did not like the thread........It did not bump to top, and its now buried on page 3-4. I posted the links to two charcoal making videos as well. I would repost them, but our internet is down and I cannot do it from my phone.
    I saw it bro - thanks for following up.  Very interesting stuff.  I had no idea about the scrubbers.


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