[Stoves] News: Dublin deaths from "renewable energy" - wood and peat heating

[Nikhil Desai]

Basically an argument against EU's Renewable Energy Directive which, in its
climate hysteria, treats wood pellets and peat as carbon-neutral fuels.
Following Gary Fuller in the Guardian Pollutionwatch: wood burning is not
climate friendly
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/01/pollutionwatch-wood-burning-is-not-climate-friendly>,
1 March 2018, which is rather silly, looking at only CO2 emissions, not all
carbon emissions, and dismissing reuptake by photosynthesis.

Dublin is a city of 1.3 million people.  Chunshui Lin, et al., Extreme air
pollution from residential solid fuel burning
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0125-x.epdf>, Nature
Sustainability, September 2018 claim that "only a few households (<13%)
that burn biomass for heating (especially peat) could cause recurring
extreme pollution events, influencing the overall air quality in the
city."

That is enough for Gary Fuller to write in the Guardian Pollutionwatch:
wood and peat burning brings return of air pollution to Dublin
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/27/pollutionwatch-wood-and-peat-burning-brings-return-of-air-pollution-to-dublin>
27
September 2018.

Combustion practices matter. The primary research here (Lin et al.)
perpetuates the lie of emissions being an inherent property of the fuel by
using same emission factors for a fuel type regardless of fuel chemistry
and combustion method, and then without regard to the building design,
exhausts, fenestration.

No exposures were estimated, so no death tally was baked. But if emissions
mean exposures, surely exposures mean death.

Air quality experts are welcome in a regulatory debate, along with
engineers, architects, fuel and stove marketers. Absent such debate, people
are condemned to these environmental health zealots.

Nikhil





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