Wood and energy in Rhode Island /
Mark R. Bailey, Paul R. Wheeling, Maria I. Lenz.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Natural Resource Economics Division ; [1983]
- Summary
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Extract: Telephone surveys of Rhode Island households conducted in 1979 indicate a transition to wood heating in response to a series of conventional energy price increases and uncertainty in conventional energy supplies. Rhode Island households consumed 108,000 cords of wood in the winter of 1978-79. The airtight wood stove is becoming the most commonly used wood-burning apparatus. Survey data of residential wood cutting, purchasing, and burning were analyzed by household tenure, wood-burning apparatus, and county. Residential use of wood for energy constitutes a new demand on the forest resource, increases local income and employment, displaces fuel oil and electricity, but may compromise household safety.
- Note
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Distributed to depository libraries in microfiche.
"July 1983."
- Physical Description
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v, 47 pages :
illustrations, 2 maps ;
28 cm
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