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/

[Bazile]

Should we not do anything , because others aren't ?

[Ken4155]

All true, but we have no control over the countries mentioned. We are leading by example.

[fender62]

not do anything, of course not..perhaps the powers that be should ask china to do there bit, meanwhile diesel cars lorries pump out x amount of poison day in day out world wide, not to mention air travel..cruise liners et al, but wood burning stoves.. crack down on that, just seems
ludicrous in the scheme of things, i dont have one myself.

[Chipchopper]

Burning wet wood is insane and should be avoided but I don't know how it could be enforced. Burning wood with less than 12% moisture should be the safe target.
I think the best way to regulate wood burning is to make sure stoves that are manufactured must comply to a low particulate standard, such as an airwash system where exes gases are burnt off before they exit the flue pipe.

[Tilly2]

Can smokeless fuel still be used in wood burners?

[diddlydo]

This is taking a sledge-hammer to crack a peanut. Most people who have wood-burners don't have them burning all the time for a start and any emissions pale in comparison with cars, buses etc etc

[theshedman]

According to the link in this post wet wood when alight gives off more polutants than road transport and industry combined so maybe not such a small amount but how would it be policed and it is only for new fires not the ones already in use.

[ubasses]

Just read today's Telegraph (paper copy) that wood burners and open fire are considered the most harmful pollutant. This could mean the end of wood burning stoves. Also goes on to say that open fires and wood burners could be banned in the future.
Well I hope that they are going to do something about the frequent power cuts and lack of gas in our small village where most people rely on open fires.

[Zacs-Master]

I nearly spent £3k on a wood burner recently. Our neighbour just has. I think there will be a black market in wood. Anyone any idea how this will be policed?

[diddlydo]

I definitely wouldn't be without my open fire on which I burn any old wood that's donated to me.

[Apc2604]

We have been using woodburners in our very rural home for 40 years, initially also for central heating. Considering there are so few houses in the area (all with wood burners), I doubt our pollution levels are high. We have always used dried wood, mostly from the woods around and stored on our land. They have stated there won't be a ban onwoodburners. Thank goodness. Our wood comes free!

[andy-hughes]

Bazile - // Should we not do anything , because others aren't ? //

No, but targeting individuals when entire nations simply flout any attempts at addressing climate change is unlikely to convert those individuals to the cause.

It may not be right to point out that Chins is constructing coal-fired power stations at a rate of one a week - but it does give credence to the protest that individual actions are utterly futile in the face of international indifference.

[teacake44]

I blame Ray Mears, he's all over the planet setting off fires. :0)

[Deskdiary]

Ignorant question time, but in my defence I don’t have an open fire or a log burner, what is the issue with burning wet logs?

It’s come as a surprise to me that wet logs burn!

[Tilly2]

Again:-

Can smokeless fuel still be used in wood burners?

[The Builder]

Yes, Tilly, but only in "multifuel" models.

[ladybirder]

DD, after a tree has been cut down it takes about 6-8 months for the "seasoning" process to make the wood fit to burn. It smokes to high heaven if it hasn't been seasoned properly.

[woofgang]

we were warned not to burn unseasoned wood when we looked into getting a woodburner here apparently the tar it produces trashes the chimney

[fender62]

seems like th real big polluters are allowed carte blanche, little britain
doing something for the planet, nothing will change until there is a catastrophe planet wide and everbody feels it, save the earth should go to china and india and the usa, probably get shot in china, arrested in the u.s and india...i think only a literal meltdown will focus the minds of the powers that be, wood burners meh.

[Tilly2]

Thank you for answering, The Builder.