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>all homes will be equipped with fireplaces, wood stoves and chimneys. Great: the burning of solid fuels (coal in the past, but nowadays mostly wood at least i
by hollerith 5y ago
>all homes will be equipped with fireplaces, wood stoves and chimneys.
Great: the burning of solid fuels (coal in the past, but nowadays mostly wood at least in the US) is the source of one of the most damaging forms of pollution (particulate) these years, which is the reason that for example fireplaces and wood stoves have been banned in new construction in the Bay Area since 2005.
- wyager 5y agoProbably not a problem with only a few thousand people. You could also require catalytic stoves or some other kind of stove with lower particulate emissions.
- hollerith 5y agoI regularly find a single household burning wood to be obnoxious to me in certain atmospheric conditions (which are present about .6 of the time in my part of the Bay Area). Vehicles in countries with good air quality simply avoid producing carbon-rich particles (the kind of pollution produced by burning wood or coal) in the first place: their catalytic converters are for other types of pollution (gases).
- breischl 5y agoI did find it weird to assert that you can't use wood for construction materials because it wouldn't fit, but then require it for fuel. If you can't find enough wood to build out of, then it seems even harder to find enough to cook & heat with, even in a relatively warm climate like Texas.