Do you know wood? Here are 10 facts you definitely didn't know
Publication date: 5. december 2019
Once again, we have reached the winter months and we are all joyfully looking forward to the holidays. Winter is also a time when work slows down a bit, so this time we will share some slightly different knowledge with you. We have found 10 interesting facts about wood for you that show how important wood is. It is embedded in all aspects of our lives, and without it, life would come to a standstill.
We already shared the first part of the article with you last year, and you can read it HERE.
For new facts, I invite you to read the lines below.
1. The smallest tree in the world is the dwarf willow, which lives in the northern and Arctic regions of the Tundra and rarely grows more than a few centimeters tall.
2. Trees never die of old age, but from insects, disease, or they are cut down by people.
3. There are more than 23,000 different species of trees in the world.
4. Just one tree can absorb up to 48 kilograms of carbon dioxide per year and can safely store as much as one ton of CO2 by the age of 40, which is why they are so important in the fight against climate change.
5. Trees absorb as much as 50% of all solar energy of all living organisms.
6. A tree in the right place can reduce air conditioning costs by 30%.
7. Consequently, because of trees, the value of the property or the entire estate increases by 14%, and some even claim by as much as 27%.
8. As long as forests are properly managed, trees are renewable. Modern devices can achieve 90% combustion efficiency, and carbon emissions from wood are much lower than from fossil fuels.
9. Trees get 90% of their nutrition from the atmosphere and only 10% from the soil.
10. In the USA, the shade and wind protection provided by trees reduce annual heating and cooling costs by as much as 2.1 billion USD.
So we see that trees, besides serving us as a building material, are truly ubiquitous and extremely important for the way people live as well as for the entire planet.
