28 Mar
2012
28 Mar
'12
9:12 p.m.
cylindrical volume of about 50 cubic metres for one
tree. Let's say
that one person wants a piece of rosewood that is 50cm x 50cm x 1cm.
That is 0.0025 cubic metres, so a single fully grown tree would
satisfy 20,000 people once a year.
That's assuming that (a) all the pieces can be fit into the tree's
volume with no waste, (b) nothing is lost in cutting them out, and (c)
any part of the tree is perfectly suitable for any use. Neither (a)
nor (b) is likely to be true, and, while I don't know rosewood, I know
that with the woods I do know something about, (c) is not true.
I have nothing but wild guesses as to how much is wasted; for what it's
worth, my wild guess is that the wastage is at least half the volume.
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