[Stoves] Stoves Digest, Vol 96, Issue 20

[Norbert Senf]

Cool photo story in the Manchester Evening News from February, about the
blackened buildings of Manchester before the Clean Air Act:
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/gallery/blackened-buildings-manchester-before-clean-8727918?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar


On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:00 PM, <stoves-request at lists.bioenergylists.org>
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>    1. Re: The Economist: Wood-burning stoves, the picturesque
>       polluters (Andrew Heggie)
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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 14:31:19 +0100
> From: Andrew Heggie <aj.heggie at gmail.com>
> To: Nikhil Desai <ndesai at alum.mit.edu>,         Discussion of biomass
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> Subject: Re: [Stoves] The Economist: Wood-burning stoves, the
>         picturesque polluters
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> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 22:41, Nikhil Desai <pienergy2008 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > This suggests a way forward - taxing wood stoves.  Wood-burners must "go
> back out of fashion", meaning if not stoves, the people in whose name.
> >
> > Nikhil
> >
> > https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/08/27/
> wood-burning-stoves-the-picturesque-polluters
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>
> I'm hardly surprised there has been no interest on [stoves] about this
> as it is too UK centric, it also relates to a wealthy nation's
> lifestyle choices rather than an absolute need for wood burning. Most
> people using wood for cooking have no choice. BTW I operate a wood
> burner in winter and it wouldn't impact on my finances greatly if I
> used natural gas instead.
>
>
> There is a graphic in the article which I find interesting as it shows
> an overall halving of particulates in the period 1990 to present and
> I'm sure I lived through much worse before that.
>
> It shows a drastic  reduction in particulates from agriculture in the
> period 1990 to 95 which must reflect the ban on cereal straw burning
> post harvest.
>
> Again whilst the non specific "other" sources of particulates has
> declined similarly  I note it contributes about a third so if it were
> possible to reduce all particulates from domestic and industrial
> combustion and road transport to zero the background would still be
> 30% of the current total.
>
> This reflects a bit on what we discussed in the Malawi study you
> cannot expect biomass cooking being replaced by "clean" cookers to
> have any effect unless you also eliminate other sources in the local
> environment.
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> Andrew
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Norbert Senf
Masonry Stove Builders
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Shawville Québec J0X 2Y0
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