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You say that, but the EPA has been slowly tightening emission rules for wood burning stoves. Just this year the EPA is beginning to reduce the allowable soot em
by ashtonkem 5y ago
You say that, but the EPA has been slowly tightening emission rules for wood burning stoves. Just this year the EPA is beginning to reduce the allowable soot emissions for stoves from 4.5g/h down to 2.0g/h. Old stoves are obviously a problem, but they’re getting measurably better with time.
The model I’m considering purchasing has an actual catalytic converter in it, just like a car, to ensure combustion is as complete as possible.
- stefan_ 5y agoAnd cigarette filters are 30% effective at removing solids from inhaled smoke. But you are still smoking! It's 2021. Burning wood makes no sense from a global warming and certainly not from a public health perspective.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoUnless you can wave a magic wand and make alternative sources of energy sufficiently cheaper (or make people sufficiently richer, two sides of the same coin really) people are going to heat with wood where that is economically favorable.
- psd1 5y agoWood is carbon-neutral. Fossils aren't.