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> Once they have exited your chimney, the toxic gases (e.g. benzene) and particles that make up smoke Keep in mind that modern wood stoves have catalytic combu
by grecy 3y ago
> Once they have exited your chimney, the toxic gases (e.g. benzene) and particles that make up smoke
Keep in mind that modern wood stoves have catalytic combustors that burn the wood, then the smoke, then usually the smoke again.
They extract vastly more heat from the wood, and they emit vastly less toxic gasses out the stovepipe.
Also note they are legally required in many, many places now.
(Older stoves and fireplaces are grandfathered in, but you can't install a new "old" stove in many towns around the world)
- dathinab 3y agoyes I'm mainly complaining about grandfathered in stoves, or such which are incorrectly installed maintained
- SoftTalker 3y agoHeating with wood is also carbon-neutral.
- reducesuffering 3y agoYa, the realistic alternative to carbon-neutral wood burning is carbon-intensive natural gas burning... How is that better?
- KeplerBoy 3y agoHave you not heard of heat-pumps? I know they won't work according to old wive tales, but they actually do.
- reducesuffering 3y agoI'm not arguing that they don't work, but the "realistic" alternative is that people will still mostly use natural gas if they end up stopping wood-burning. Heat Pumps are also still using a mostly-fossil-fuel grid at times where there's the least solar and the grid is most carbon-intensive. Thus, wood burning is still the only carbon-neutral option. I'd still rather see heat pumps on a fully renewable grid, but we should have less carbon emissions getting there.
- sneak 3y agoOnly if you replant the trees.
- Auracle 3y agoThis may come as a shock to you but trees do, in fact, replant themselves just fine without human intervention.