[Stoves] News 24 Jan 2017: Dirty woodstoves cause a health crisis in London

Traveller miata98 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 29 12:01:34 CST 2017


Air pollution in London passes levels in Beijing... and wood burners are
making problem worse
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/01/24/air-pollution-london-passes-levels-beijingand-wood-burners-making/>
Telegraph (UK)

"Temperatures have fallen below zero overnight over the last few days,
meaning householders are burning more fuel to keep warm. ..“This was the
largest contribution from wood burning measured during the winter so far,”
said a spokesman for King’s College."

What will happen when temperatures fall below -20 C? Will wood smoke create
a local GHG effect?

Maybe DfID will now give another grant to GACC to establish evidence of the
climate benefits of "renewable biomass".

Or import USEPA New Source Performance Standards for residential wood
heaters. (Does anybody know if EPA uses WBT 2.0 or 5.3 for testing? I will
have to look, but am afraid USEPA website is hacked or frozen by the
Trumpists.)

"More than a million homes in Britain now have a wood burning stove with
175,000 new ones installed every year. . . Demand for the stoves, which
cost between £400 and £7,000, has tripled in the last five years – partly
down to the savings they can make to energy bills."

Sounds like Colorado, Vermont, Upper Michigan and Maine. Except that US
hasn't yet hiked up electricity costs by imposing a hard carbon target.

Brexit may make things worse for UK GHG emissions.

I wonder what the IAQ levels are - these fancy woodstoves merely putting
the pollution out?


Nikhil
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