Wood Burning Heating
Discussions debate the use of wood-burning stoves and fireplaces for home heating, focusing on pollution, sustainability, efficiency, and comparisons to alternatives like heat pumps or gas.
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It seems like you’re saying that people are burning wood.I wish they were. Wood was probably just a part of that gentleman's own "energy mix", consisting mostly of culm(coal dust), trash, coal and wood.Recently coal dust for heating purposes was outlawed, along with stoves not meeting a certain standard of emissions, but that didn't stop retailers from offering products which were not up to those standards.Anyway the main issue still appears to be awareness, a
Burn what, precisely? It's not a woodstove.
Store the wood somewhere? Am I naive to think that it will be burned?
Burning wood isn't particularly "smart"
The site mentions sustainability but then shows a wood burning stove. If everyone on earth who needed to cook or heat a home used wood things would be far worse than using gas.
They burn all kind of shit in very inefficient stoves, modern wood burning stoves are pretty clean
The people who split a lot of wood are those who heat their house with wood. Open fire places are for ambiance. If you actually want to heat your house, you use a wood stove, which is closed.
Is someone suggesting burning wood?
How much of that is by burning wood chips ?
People aren't cutting down live trees to burn in their wood stoves.