If you are understand and care about the accelerated climate change we are witnessing, you will forget the wood burning idea quickly.
Per therm of heat, wood is the worst. I think we will see wood used for burning rising in cost a lot over the next year.
https://www.euro.who.int/__data/asse...lthImpacts.pdf
Coal actually has less emissions than wood in terms of heat and longevity of the heat produced. The middle classes are being fooled by the appearance of rustic wood burning, thinking it's good for climate change. Gas is hugely more efficient and far less emissions per therm of heat, even when the extraction and overall process is added with an additional error margin.
Be aware too that most brands of stove allow the release of various chemicals into the air in your home. The extraction process isn't 100% and is well below safety standards in most brands, unfortunately. Most people don't realise this until they start getting breathing issues or regular pneumonia.
What is needed is better forms of wood for burning, because people are burning anything. People tend to judge mainly by cost, so I can only see normal residential wood for wood burning rising in price soon. The sheer number of people installing these wood burners suggests we will see major city and town pollution, perhaps the same as the old industrial days of coal use, because the overall temperature is warmer and more humid, which will result in any emissions potentially being captured in the lower atmosphere and causing yet more issues.
Worryingly, wood burning stoves alone account for the majority of particular matter 2.5 (PM2.5) emissions in the UK, which sounds mad.
https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/wood...n-aIPXC8g7lbu5
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p085478q
Per therm of heat, wood is the worst. I think we will see wood used for burning rising in cost a lot over the next year.
https://www.euro.who.int/__data/asse...lthImpacts.pdf
Coal actually has less emissions than wood in terms of heat and longevity of the heat produced. The middle classes are being fooled by the appearance of rustic wood burning, thinking it's good for climate change. Gas is hugely more efficient and far less emissions per therm of heat, even when the extraction and overall process is added with an additional error margin.
Be aware too that most brands of stove allow the release of various chemicals into the air in your home. The extraction process isn't 100% and is well below safety standards in most brands, unfortunately. Most people don't realise this until they start getting breathing issues or regular pneumonia.
What is needed is better forms of wood for burning, because people are burning anything. People tend to judge mainly by cost, so I can only see normal residential wood for wood burning rising in price soon. The sheer number of people installing these wood burners suggests we will see major city and town pollution, perhaps the same as the old industrial days of coal use, because the overall temperature is warmer and more humid, which will result in any emissions potentially being captured in the lower atmosphere and causing yet more issues.
Worryingly, wood burning stoves alone account for the majority of particular matter 2.5 (PM2.5) emissions in the UK, which sounds mad.
https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/wood...n-aIPXC8g7lbu5
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p085478q
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