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The Age of Fire is nearly over
- EdwardDiego 4y agoI doubt that burning wood for heat is over, and will ever be. 1) It's something we seem to enjoy at a very primitive level, I'm guessing that hominids that enjoyed a fire were more likely to not be eaten by predators, and could acquire more nutrition from food after cooking. 2) People always want a back-up because power grids are still fallible. Also... > The problem goes beyond the release of greenhouse gases as wood is converted to heat https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/11/09/climate-curious-is-burning-wood-for-heat-carbon-neutral https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/11/09/climate-curious-is-... The point about particulate is correct, but there multiple methods of reducing that in action already.