Rat Man wrote on Jan 24
th, 2019 at 2:13pm:
In New Jersey wood burners are few and far between. We're heavily populated so it wouldn't take long for us to burn up all of our trees if everyone was using wood. Plus the smog would be overwhelming.
It's becoming an epidemic here. Last week, for 4 days straight, the air over our whole country was close to as bad as in Beijing. It's all because of the tremendous increase in woodburners.
Mersa wrote on Jan 24
th, 2019 at 4:41pm:
Let's just dig up fossil fuels and burn them that's way smarter....not.
Depends on what fossil fuels you are talking about. Natural gas burns 1000x cleaner than wood. Electricity and heat created by centralized, modern coal power plants with large filtration systems is much cleaner than a hundreds of thousands of highly inefficient woodburners, that do not have any filtration system at all.
Right up to about 2010 my country had quite clean air. Then it all went down hill, due to massive tax increases on natural gas, decreased production and closure of coal powerplants. What is the result? 1 million more woodburners in a country of 17 million. In my street alone, there are 6. Now most of the winter time, many, many days the air is thick and smoggy. I've bought expensive filitration system with HEPA and active charcoal filters so atleast inside the pollution is low. It's really getting out of hand. I never thought my country would slide down into a second and third world air quality index. To hell with the greens and the European Union with their CO2 madness for causing this honestly