<div dir="ltr">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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/01/pollutionwatch-wood-burning-is-not-climate-friendly"> Pollutionwatch: wood burning is not climate friendly</a>, 1 March 2018, which is rather silly, looking at only CO2 emissions, not all carbon emissions, and dismissing reuptake by photosynthesis. <br><br>Dublin is a city of 1.3 million people.
Chunshui Lin, et al., <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0125-x.epdf">Extreme air pollution from residential solid fuel burning</a>, 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." <br><br>That is enough for Gary Fuller to write in the Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/27/pollutionwatch-wood-and-peat-burning-brings-return-of-air-pollution-to-dublin">Pollutionwatch: wood and peat burning brings return of air pollution to Dublin</a> 27 September 2018.<br><br>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. <br><br>No exposures were estimated, so no death tally was baked. But if emissions mean exposures, surely exposures mean death. <br><br>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.<br><br>Nikhil<br><br><br><br><br><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Nikhil Desai</font></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">(US +1) 202 568 5831</span><font face="georgia, serif"><br><i>Skype: nikhildesai888</i><br></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>