[Stoves] Working to reduce emissions from wood burning appliances in the UK

Nikhil Desai pienergy2008 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 22:11:38 CDT 2017


Andrew:

If Londoners are very wasteful of energy, you might be confirming my view
that fuel efficiency is not worth a bother, it's the total cost that
matters (which cannot be determined by physicists, nor for that matter by
economists without heroic assumptions about consumer information and
behavior).

If wood as a fuel is a luxury good as you say, it is probably because homes
with wood stoves and chimney are either too old and too costly to retrofit
(depending on the ownership) or that rich people don't count pounds.

I guess I don't need to belabor my point. If you have kept your Jotul 602
for 30+ years, there was enough reason, I am sure.

I remember reading in the summary of the UK wood energy use survey 2015
that a half of the wood-using household heaters were 15 or more years old.

If the replacement rate by new Ecodesign stoves is that slow, pollution
spikes will recur.

Nikhil



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On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Andrew Heggie <aj.heggie at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26 July 2017 at 14:26, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
> <crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:
> > Dear Friends
> >
> > http://www.airqualitynews.com/2017/07/18/stove-
> manufacturers-working-tackle-emissions/
> >
> A couple of interesting points since we discussed the problem of
> pollution in London last winter; the  issue is mostly down to wood
> burning in open fires which is also very wasteful of energy.
>
> I think the figures for various moisture contents are misleading in
> that wood is generally bought by volume here so the same volume of
> wood at differing moisture contents will not be so great as shown.
> Wood as a fuel is a luxury good and poor value compared with other
> fuels here because of the high labour content and high wages, so a lot
> of waste wood will be in that usage. Of course I deprecate burning of
> wet wood as it is far more difficult to have a clean flue gas. Indeed
> I shall consider replacing my 30 + year old Jotul 602 with something
> that meets the new standard and have intended to cover my woodstack
> for some time now.
>
> Note the site is sponsored by purveyors of LPG
>
>
>
> > It includes emission regulations for PM2.5 and PM10.
>
> I missed that, what figures did they give?
>
>
> Andrew
>
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