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People heating their homes can be very sigificant. In the UK ~15% of all its territorial GHGs come from heating with gas: actual CO2 from the home boiler flues
by DamonHD 7mo ago
People heating their homes can be very sigificant. In the UK ~15% of all its territorial GHGs come from heating with gas: actual CO2 from the home boiler flues.
CO2 from small amounts of rural home heating is probably not the big thing to be worried about, especially if local recent biomass, eg wood from forest management. But there are still nasties (PMs, biodiversity losses, etc) to be considered and that should be dealt with in due course.
- cogman10 7mo agoAt least in 2004 (not sure if it's still the case) there are some homes which still burned coal for heat. That is the nastiest smell out there.
- DamonHD 7mo agoIn England it is no longer legal to sell "traditional house" coal for domestic heating: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/selling-coal-for-domestic-use-in-england https://www.gov.uk/guidance/selling-coal-for-domestic-use-in...
- rithdmc 7mo agoThe actual quantity of people burning turf for home heat is tiny, though.