Page 4 - Sonoma County Gazette - January 2018

LETTERS cont’d from page 3
And by considering “affordable housing” as “accessory” to those in need... prior to the fires makes the County and Cities involved an “Accessory to Crime”... Keeping children, women, men and pets without a warm safe place to call “HOME”...
A Renewable Heat Source
clean. I am as offended by smoke as you are - whether it’s wood burning smoke, cigarette smoke, or burning cannabis leaves. It’s all smoke.
-I AM –Clay InThePottersHands
• Trees grow every day - they need tree services to trim the excess. I would not recommend that people burn wood for heat if they cannot source it from a renewable source such as from tree services. Cutting down forests for heat would be counter-productive, as would sourcing wood that needed to be trucked long-distances.
Just like driving a clean vehicle (electric and water-fueled) vs. a dirty one (petroleum fueled), we can CHOOSE which energy source we consume. We have choices in this country - pretty wonderful! ~ Vesta
Comments Welcome...
• Trees clean our air and provide oxygen, etc. and they are beautiful. They grow and can be used/ consumed within a short distance of where they grow.
Definition of “accessory” plural accessories
1a : “an object or device that is not
Response to 12/17
I was alerted by someone that some (nastiness) was written about me
in the Graton Column of this month (December). I was somewhat shocked to read what was written.
essential in itself” but adds to the beauty, convenience, or effectiveness of something else :
Graton Column
· auto accessories
· clothingaccessories
b : a thing of secondary or lesser
• Trees use water, but they also generate water because they transpire moisture they pull from the earth and “breathe” it into the air where it creates clouds, which rain upon the earth and the cycle continues.
Jennifer Butler writes that she asked me monthly for years to clean up
“the mess” when Bambu’ was under construction. I remember it very well how ONE DAY she came up to me while I was working in the gardens and blasted me yelling at me about my old truck always being parked there and the mess.
importance : adjunct
Note: SB 1069 65852.2 bottom A and B section The bill would prohibit
a local agency from requiring an applicant for this permit to install a new or separate utility connection
Aside from smoke when burned, trees have few negative consequences as a heat source - BUT - smoke from improperly burned wood is a health hazard similar to diesel fuel emissions and smoke of any kind. Smoke is particulate matter that harms lungs.
Clay Inthepottershands
Wood Smoke
• Petroleum products: propane, natural gas, oil, and coal all rely upon natural resources that were produced a very long time ago. They are not renewable and the product consumes energy while being transported long distances from its source to where it is used.
I apologized to her and tried to talk to her about it but she refused to talk to me and only screamed at me. I remember being so upset I started crying. I remember a neighbor walking by soon after and telling me not to let it bother me and to pay no mind to her. I remember it very well.
I know wood heat is close to your heart. Burning wood for heat is a practice you regularly promote and defend.
We all seek out facts and perceived rational explanations for what we want to believe.
• Natural gas produces 1% of the particulate emissions that wood does. 28 pounds per million BTUs for wood vs .28 pounds per million BTUs for gas.
• Solar panels require natural resources that come from the earth and the process of turning the resources into solar energy panels has many toxic consequences.
And those natural resources and products have to be transported from where they are produced to where they are used.
Why Jennifer Butler has a need
to write about this and to say nasty things about me I do not understand. I truly apologized then and can apologize again now for things taking a long long time to be finished on my small budget. I did the best I could
at the time to create something of beauty that the entire community could enjoy.
• If you don’t live in a forest wood must be acquired from somewhere, using up more energy.
• Trees take a long time to grow; forests all over the globe are being cleared; unfortunate people in the 3rd world travel farther and farther from home to gather the remaining trees and bushes.
• Wind generators use metals that were created ions ago in the earth. They also take a lot of energy to produce and that energy has to be generated in order for the energy from the wind turbines to be produced. The turbines consume energy while being transported long distances from where they
are manufactured to where they
are planted in the ground. That energy has to be transmitted from its source to where it is used. Wind farms exist where winds are strong. Every energy resource has its assets
To read the last little dig in the paragraph about hoping that a
new restaurant could come in that would CARE about the neighbor’s experience is just complete nastiness.
• Along with the unpleasantness of smoke on our fellow citizens, burning wood unleashes a number of toxins. • Saying if everybody burned in the best way things would be good is
Thank you to all of you who supported me especially when I lost my restaurant when the new owner bought it to take it over and make his own restaurant. I tried. I feel grateful for what I was able to do with the building and the property when I leased it.
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like saying if everyone drove a Prius everything would be fine. Not gonna happen.
I believe we do not change people’s minds. However, I direct your attention to these two short articles:
and liabilities - mining - water use - air pollution - energy consumed to create and transport it.
I put my heart and soul and most of my inheritance into it. I feel grateful for the support and love I had with the neighbors.
http://www.familiesforcleanair.org/ myths/
Thank you. Life is short. There are good things to write about. Must we do it by putting someone down? I feel sad and disappointed for this.
https://www.treehugger.com/ renewable-energy/is-burning-wood- for-heat-really-green.html
Only solar and wind are clean when they are producing energy.
Thanks.
Thomas Johnson, Guerneville
In that context can you see why I prefer the renewable energy source for heat? BUT - it HAS to be burned
Jessica Barrilleaux,
Proprietress of Bambu’ Tea House