[Stoves] personal pollution monitors (Andrew)

[Andrew Heggie]

On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 14:32:09 +0000,Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
<crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:

>I was really asking if the gravity of the implications of making flippant claims about stove 'impact' are apparent and accepted.
>For ten years now, as confirmed by Dean Still, I have been raising a rukus about the multiple conceptual and mathematical errors still contained in the WBT.

Hold hard Crispin, we were discussing particulates.

It's not that I'm not interested in stove testing but rather I'm
disinterested, I don't move in those circles that get to decide these
things.

I do have a little anecdote about  wanting standards that favour
personal wishes: some 20 years ago  the prices of timber I harvested
were dropping in the face of a recent exposure to world trade. I
thought wood for heat and pellets were a way forward for our smaller
diameter trees.

The standard that was eventually set didn't suit my wishes as the
requirement for low ash  couldn't be met by smaller trees.

Little did I realise the standard did suit imports of pellets from
many thousands of miles away and we now burn  imports in far greater
quantities than can be grown in these islands in order to meet a
renewable energy target.

I suggest you change the subject to the specific bit of stoves testing
that you are concerned about.

Andrew