Northern home customers are getting year around hot water with cord wood at $.96 per square ft of heating area or biomass at $.47 compared with oil at $2.04 per square ft of heating area. [This assumes Oil at $2.85/gallon, cordwood at $180/cord and biomass at $50/ton.] A $9,000 system will pay dividends - in fact in this example $16071 will be saved above the cost of cord wood fuel in 5 years. Call now!

Many of us have switched from traditional fossil fuel heating sources to an alternative fuel hydronic central heating appliance and discovered the benefits of having a warm house (a hot shower or heated pool). Practicality makes us reason in our minds that supporting huge expense to benefit distant people, maybe with questionable purposes is a jumping-on point for heating with sustainable wood and agricultural by-products and supporting the local economy. Yes, and certainly it's practical to have the environmentally smart energy that is packed into cordwood or biomass, burning efficiently with the highest design technologies and transported into the home and other buildings in an energy transfer pipe running quietly underground. The list of practical reasoning is intriguing. But, what we love ... is a WARM HOUSE. It's the EMOTION of alternative energy heating.

In the last two years, we (in the U.S.) have spent $700 billion on oil imports (the same as the current financial system bailout package). If the oil import money stayed here, it would generate $7 trillion in economic activity. Yes, financial growth at ThisWarmHouse is geometric - so we are already ramping well to accommodate the goal that we all need to have - a 25% improvement in energy efficiency and conservation over the next 10 years. If we all did that, we could effectively save the BTU energy equivalent of all the U.S. oil imports from the Arabian Gulf.

Report Shows PA's Forests Hold Tremendous Energy Potential
A multi-year report says Pennsylvania's forests are home to a plentiful resource that could be used to fuel small-scale projects, bringing promising new alternative energy options to the commonwealth, Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff said today.
Nearly 500 million tons of low-use wood, poor quality or damaged wood are estimated to exist in Pennsylvania's forests. The portion of this resource that is available economically could be used more extensively in an environmentally friendly way as an alternative energy resource.
"Pennsylvania has an exceptional opportunity to look at homegrown alternatives to meet our energy needs," said Wolff. "Using renewable materials like low-use wood as fuel sources will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, keeping more of our hard-earned money at home benefiting our local communities rather than sending those dollars abroad."
Harvesting at a sustainable rate--or as much as six million dry tons of low-use wood, which is approximately one percent of the total available--could be used annually to fuel hundreds of school or public building heat projects; generate six million megawatt hours of electricity, or the amount of 45 electricity plants; or produce 300 million 40-pound bags of wood heating pellets.
"Converting low-use wood to energy is a socially and ecologically sensible strategy for turning this underutilized, renewable resource into a benefit for consumers," said Wolff. "To be successful, we must continue managing our forests in a sustainable manner and work harmoniously with existing wood products and paper industries in the state."
The Blue Ribbon Hardwood Task Force was formed in 2004 by Governor Edward G. Rendell to better define industry issues and research and evaluate the market and new technologies.
"Taking advantage of a home-grown resource for expanded alternative energy use makes great sense, and can promote forest health if done correctly," said Wolff.
Overseen by the Pennsylvania Hardwoods Development Council and the Department of Agriculture, members of the task force include wood products and paper processors, manufacturers, academic and forestry organizations, state and federal government officials, and other forestry industry representatives.
With 17 million acres, Pennsylvania is home to the largest hardwood forest in the United States, providing 10 percent of the nation's hardwood lumber supply. The state's forest land supports a $17 billion timber industry that produces nearly 1 billion board feet and provides thousands of
jobs.
For more information about Pennsylvania's hardwood industry, visit www.agriculture.state.pa.u
s and click on "Business & Industry."
Nicole L. C. Bucher
SOURCE Pennsylvania Office of the Governor

Biomass Energy's Enormous Green Potential
Excerpt:TheDailyGreen.com
The oldest and most prevalent source of renewable energy known to man, biomass is already a mainstay of energy production in the United States and elsewhere. Since such a wide variety of biomass resources is available -- from trees and grasses to forestry, agricultural and urban wastes -- biomass promises to play a continuing role in providing power and heat for millions of people around the world.

According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), biomass is not only a renewable energy source but a carbon neutral one as well, because the energy it contains comes from the sun. When plant matter is burned, it releases the sun's energy originally captured through photosynthesis. "In this way, biomass functions as a sort of natural battery for storing solar energy," reports UCS. As long as biomass is produced sustainably -- with only as much used as is grown -- the "battery" lasts indefinitely.

While biomass is most commonly used, especially in developing countries, as a source of heat so families can stay warm and cook meals, it can also be utilized as a source of electricity. Steam captured from huge biomass processing facilities is used to turn turbines to generate electricity. Of course, biomass is also a "feedstock" for several increasingly popular carbon-neutral fuels, including ethanol and biodiesel.

According to the federal Energy Information Administration, biomass has been the leading U.S. non-hydroelectric renewable energy source for several years running through 2007, accounting for between 0.5 and 0.9 percent of the nation's total electricity supply. In 2008 -- although the numbers aren't all in yet -- wind power likely took over first place due to extensive development of wind farms across the country.

According to the USA Biomass Power Producers Alliance, generating power from biomass helps Americans avoid some 11 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions that burning the equivalent amount of fossil fuels would create each year. It also helps avoid annual emissions of some two million tons of methane -- which is 20-plus times stronger a "greenhouse" gas than carbon dioxide -- per year.

The largest biomass power plant in the country is South Bay, Florida's New Hope Power Partnership. The 140-megawatt facility generates electricity by burning sugar cane fiber (bagasse) and recycled urban wood, powering some 60,000 homes as well as the company's own extensive milling and refining operations. Besides preserving precious landfill space by recycling sugar cane and wood waste, the facility's electricity output obviates the need for about a million barrels of oil per year.Excerpt from:TheDailyGreen.com

So, consider a smart purchase and the joy of a warm house:
an alternative fuel hydronic furnace. Safe, clean, no smoke or creasote and carbon neutral. Capable of supplying your heating needs, from your house to your domestic water, as well as garages, shops and barns, swimming pools, greenhouses, and much more.

Our ThisWarmHouse service area includes New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Call Mark Wilber and his fine associates (Walt, Derrick, David, Marty, Michael, Andrew, and Gene) at ThisWarmHouse today and let us know how we can help: 1.800.333.4729 Corp HQ at Mansfield Pennsylvania - Open 9-5EST Mon-Fri

Commercial Biomass Systems by ThisWarmHouse

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Make up to 400 "Warm House's" one "City" at a time. (The Verner Golem 2.5 mega watt biomass plant). ThisWarmHouse offers a wide range of commercial biomass systems from Verner, Hamech, and GARN(R) to fit virtually any application. Call for details.

A Brief History of ThisWarmHouse

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Since 1988, box43 LLC and ThisWarmHouse have been meeting the needs of families wanting to find high quality, affordable heating solutions for their homes or businesses.

ThisWarmHouse has had the experience of supporting our customers purchases of hundreds of heating appliances in the United States. Through direct customer care and our growing network of representatives you can experience the JOY of a Warm House. Our customers are the reason for our success. We warmly extend the operations success of our vendor partners - Aqua-Therm LLC of Brooten, Minnesota and Dectra Corporation of St. Anthony, Minnesota to support the phenomenal customer demand for ThisWarmHouse in our region.