[Stoves] News 26 Jan 2017: Cleaner home heating in China

[Traveller]

Beijing’s Plan for Cleaner Heat Leaves Villagers Cold
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/beijings-plan-for-cleaner-heat-leaves-villagers-cold-1485340201>*China
installs electric heaters for millions to cut coal use, but rural poor fret
over rising bills*

WSJ.Com, behind paywall. GACC may claim credit.

Says, "One Chinese government pollution solution is to swap out coal stoves
for electric heaters. But it can be an expensive switch for villagers used
to cheap coal, so researchers at Tsinghua University are researching
thriftier solutions."

And "Cities and towns as far as 100 miles from Beijing have promised to
establish “no-coal zones.” In Dongzhi West village, officials recently
installed an electric heating system in Gao Hongfei’s courtyard home, 40
miles north of downtown Beijing. The system heats water to send to
radiators in Ms. Gao’s home.

At first, Ms. Gao—fearful over pollution’s effect on her 12-year-old
son—welcomed the heating system. Yet she kept her family’s coal-burning
stove as a backup and declined a $115 offer to dismantle its “kang” bed—a
centuries-old feature of rural homes, with a platform warmed underneath by
the exhaust of a wood fire."

Nikhil
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