alt.energy.renewable

-> That should work fairly well as long as your supply of trees
-> holds out. I lived for a time near Poughkeepsie and enjoyed that
-> area - one day it finally sank in that nearly all the trees in
-> the area seemed to be about the same age. When I investigated, I
-> was amazed at how quickly the original "old growth" trees had
-> disappeared to fuel NYC - and that was when the city was small...

I lived near there for a while, too. I noticed that there were a lot of
old stone walls in the forest. Local people told me that the area used
to be cleared and used for farming. The walls surrounded fields. But
the land was really not very good, and as settlement moved westward,
the farms were abandoned. The trees that now grow there date from the
abandonment, so they are all about the same age.

Maybe a bit of both.

dow