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> Here are some suggestions. Firstly, call on research bodies to devise 
> efficient
> ways to collect surplus material. (Remember its heat content is 
> potentially
> worth about $500 per tonne retail). Then:
>
> Turn it into ethanol or gas for use as fuel.
> Make brickettes out of it and use it for all kinds of heating.
> Use it to heat water, which can be transported into townships and sold.
> Burn it cleanly to generate electricity.
> Use it for space heating of large buildings.
> And note: The litter on a one-hectare block would easily run a steam car 
> for a
> year.
>

I think that you've been smoking too much forest products already.

Have you actually thought about how it would have to be physically
collected? The only problem you would solve is the world's unemployment
problem, and that's just for doing it in Australia. What about the enormous
transportation requirements, or do you want very large collection areas &
processing plants all over the place in the centre's of your much loved
forest's? I guess that you believe that these thousands of great trucks will
be solar powered. Not likely. Even IF you could collect it most would likely 
decay and release CO2 before it could be processed anyway.

Do you realise that any material on the forest floor decays and releases CO2
anyway. Do you know how much material decays in the tropics after our yearly
wet season growth spurts. So please tell us the difference between it
decaying and being burnt.

Have you thought about all the roads that will have to be cut through all
the pristine forests for collecting the material. This will do wonders for
your beloved forest's. Erosion, spread of plant disease's, breaking up the 
habitat's etc.



Between lightning strikes and genuine criminal pyro's much of northern 
Australia burns anyway. Controlled early dry season burns are likely to 
cause less problems that major uncontrolled burns. You/we may not like it 
but it's a fact of life up this way, every year.



If your only rebuttal is to call people "pyro's" then you haven't got much 
to support your argument.



PhilD