Wood Fuel

Managing and choosing wood in the right way might help us reclaim the case for burning wood.

Plaintiffs from six European countries and the US argue biomass does more harm than good and should be not be counted as a renewable energy source.

Today's energy policies are concerned overwhelmingly with generating electricity. But 84 per cent of the energy we use at home is to heat our rooms and hot water. What if that energy could come from a source which is not only renewable, but is cheap, readily available, and even improves the environment it is extracted from? Adam Nicolson reports on the growing potential for wood fuel in Kent