Wet Wood Ban..

[fender62]

meanwhile china build new coal fired electricity plants..not to mention india , europe has some pretty dire plants a well..eastern block countries, kosovo has a really polluting plant.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8026987/Ban-sale-wet-wood-house-coal-hits-2-5m-homes-Government-clamps-air-pollution.html
https://www.wired.com/story/china-is-still-building-an-insane-number-of-new-coal-plants/

[Ryzen]

In a few years time ..when the 'experts' have forced us all to go electric..and the ageing/decaying grid system fails..wood burners will be the only heat source available.

[Old_Geezer]

Who wants to burn wet wood for heating anyway ?

[diddlydo]

"Wet wood" is a stupid term when what they mean is unseasoned wood i.e. wood that hasn't been allowed to dry out for 12-18 months. We regularly burn logs that have only recently been cut but they're not "wet" in the obvious sense of the word and they burn just fine.

[jourdain2]

The UK produces a tiny percentage of pollution world-wide. This is a totally ridiculous measure. Across the road lives a 74 yr-old lady whose only source of heating is wood. About a mile away is a firm that supplies stoves and wood-burners. There is no gas in the village, coal is apparently to be phased out (so what about all the other houses who heat everything by coal?.... quite a few here). We have oil-fired heating, but the tank is getting old and if it goes - we can't replace it due to new rules about spacing from buildings; so how are we supposed to heat the house?

It has all gone far too far and a bucket of cold water (aka practicality) needs to be poured quickly. No-one sensibly uses wet-wood if they can help it, it smokes and is not as hot. I survived on wood when in France and most people there do!

[ludwig]

I hope they do ban it. I'm sick off trying to set light to waterlogged softwood.

[DTCwordfan]

jourdain....that's an example of how ridiculous this is - there's loads of rural folk and even in towns that rely on wood and coal fires for their heat and, in may cases, hot water where back-boilers are involved. Most wood has dried for at least eight months to a year.....it burns better than freshly cut.

As a matter of interest, what about coke into an Aga?

[jourdain2]

DTC !!!! Aaargh!