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

[Andrew Heggie]

At least one thing was right, we have had a few days where the
temperature fell below 0C  but I am SW of the "heat island" of London
so maybe a little colder then there.

On 30 January 2017 at 17:16, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
<crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:

>
> Will London do what they did during the coal smoke crisis in the 1950’s?
> Instead of learning how to burn coal smokelessly, they banned the fuel.

Raw coal was banned in "smokeless" zones. Modified solid fuel
"smokeless coal" replaced it within these zones.


> They
> could do the same again: bad wood combustion instead of applying known
> physics and designs to produce a dramatic drop in smoke emitted to less than
> 1% of what it going up the chimneys now
>

In fact "DEFRA" approved wood stoves burning wood fuel within the
range of moisture contents specified by the manufacturer are exempt
for use in smoke control areas and have been for some time.

>– equivalent to pulling 1,000,000
> diesel powered vehicles off the road, right?

Is that a statistic you just pulled from the air?

Andrew