<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Cool photo story in the Manchester Evening News from February, about the blackened buildings of Manchester before the Clean Air Act:<br><a href="https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/gallery/blackened-buildings-manchester-before-clean-8727918?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar">https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/gallery/blackened-buildings-manchester-before-clean-8727918?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar</a><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:00 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stoves-request@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">stoves-request@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Stoves mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Re: The Economist: Wood-burning stoves, the picturesque<br>
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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 14:31:19 +0100<br>
From: Andrew Heggie <<a href="mailto:aj.heggie@gmail.com">aj.heggie@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: Nikhil Desai <<a href="mailto:ndesai@alum.mit.edu">ndesai@alum.mit.edu</a>>, Discussion of biomass cooking<br>
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Subject: Re: [Stoves] The Economist: Wood-burning stoves, the<br>
picturesque polluters<br>
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 22:41, Nikhil Desai <<a href="mailto:pienergy2008@gmail.com">pienergy2008@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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> Nikhil<br>
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> <a href="https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/08/27/wood-burning-stoves-the-picturesque-polluters" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.economist.com/<wbr>graphic-detail/2018/08/27/<wbr>wood-burning-stoves-the-<wbr>picturesque-polluters</a><br>
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I'm hardly surprised there has been no interest on [stoves] about this<br>
as it is too UK centric, it also relates to a wealthy nation's<br>
lifestyle choices rather than an absolute need for wood burning. Most<br>
people using wood for cooking have no choice. BTW I operate a wood<br>
burner in winter and it wouldn't impact on my finances greatly if I<br>
used natural gas instead.<br>
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There is a graphic in the article which I find interesting as it shows<br>
an overall halving of particulates in the period 1990 to present and<br>
I'm sure I lived through much worse before that.<br>
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It shows a drastic reduction in particulates from agriculture in the<br>
period 1990 to 95 which must reflect the ban on cereal straw burning<br>
post harvest.<br>
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Again whilst the non specific "other" sources of particulates has<br>
declined similarly I note it contributes about a third so if it were<br>
possible to reduce all particulates from domestic and industrial<br>
combustion and road transport to zero the background would still be<br>
30% of the current total.<br>
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This reflects a bit on what we discussed in the Malawi study you<br>
cannot expect biomass cooking being replaced by "clean" cookers to<br>
have any effect unless you also eliminate other sources in the local<br>
environment.<br>
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Andrew<br>
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