Will some one cross reference with economic statuses?
Given that the Goverments created the energy market ponzi scheme and the lack of long term gas storage, I’m not angry with anyone polluting to survive.
It would be cheaper for me to burn. But I’m in a smokeless zone. Full of wood burners every night.
Just need money i don’t have. Flue and hard standing in place.
I am surprised to see resistance to this in the comments here. More data about air quality is a good thing. Personally, I am sceptical of the level of pollution claimed for wood burners.
Ah the figures have been updated! In 2021 there was a report saying that 38% of particle pollution under 2.5microns in size was from wood burning, which was three times that of vehicles. I seem to recall that study assumed those burning wood did so for 40 hours per week, every week. Its been downrated to 17%. That still seems a lot to be honest. I don’t think there are many wood burners near me in London.
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Will some one cross reference with economic statuses?
Given that the Goverments created the energy market ponzi scheme and the lack of long term gas storage, I’m not angry with anyone polluting to survive.
It would be cheaper for me to burn. But I’m in a smokeless zone. Full of wood burners every night.
Just need money i don’t have. Flue and hard standing in place.
I am surprised to see resistance to this in the comments here. More data about air quality is a good thing. Personally, I am sceptical of the level of pollution claimed for wood burners.
Ah the figures have been updated! In 2021 there was a report saying that 38% of particle pollution under 2.5microns in size was from wood burning, which was three times that of vehicles. I seem to recall that study assumed those burning wood did so for 40 hours per week, every week. Its been downrated to 17%. That still seems a lot to be honest. I don’t think there are many wood burners near me in London.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/15/wood-burners-emit-more-particle-pollution-than-traffic-uk-data-shows
Southampton is one of the most polluted cities because of the docks. Wood burners are not even slightly the problem.
They’ve repeatedly cheaped out on not providing electricity to the ships in the dock, so they have to run their engines constantly instead.
What I know about Southampton is that most of the low-end housing no longer has functional fireplaces.
Iirc there’s been an uptick in wealthier households using them because it became ‘trendy’ to chase something of a Nordic hygge aesthetic.
So whoever’s using these things probably isn’t doing it because of higher energy bills….
I don’t care about solid fuels out of economic necessity given that’s ultimately something the better off force the worse off into
Good Life style suburbanites larping the rural lifestyle though .. they can get in the sea