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You still need to open them to fuel them, and people do that fairly frequently, which floods the space with particulates. > The results showed the burners were
by roywiggins 6y ago
You still need to open them to fuel them, and people do that fairly frequently, which floods the space with particulates.
> The results showed the burners were usually lit for about four hours at a time, and during this period the level of harmful particles in homes was three times higher than when stoves were not being used.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/18/wood-burners-triple-harmful-indoor-air-pollution-study-finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/18/wood-bur...
- rhodozelia 6y agoPresumably when the stove is not in use the amount of harful particles is very low. So a three times increase of a very small number is also very small.
- roywiggins 6y agoThe paper says that short-term peaks are linked to health issues (from page 2): > epidemiologists are increasingly recognising that exposure to high intensities of PM over much shorter periods of time—hours rather than days—is linked to a range of health issues .Indeed, Lin et al. found a significant association between hourly peakPM2.5andmortality rates across six Chinese cities. Similarly, a systematic review of 196 articles found a positive relationship between short term PM exposure and cardiovascular, respiratory, and cerebrovascular mortality https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/11/12/1326# https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/11/12/1326#