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Wood Burning Stoves
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If I may, aside from the question of carbon dioxide, here in the western U.S., many larger cities have imposed bans and/or strict liscensing requirements for woodburning stoves. Primarliy because wood smoke contains fine particulates, which contain a bewildering array of organic and inorganic compounds � the normal byproducts of wood combustion. It may also contain minute amounts of dioxins and furans (a resin formed during combustion of pine type woods), and a variety of other proven and suspected carcinogens. These restrictions are even more enforced in Canada.
The probelm is especially compounded in cities such as Denver, Colorado, that experience temperature inversions in the winter months. The inversions trap a stable air mass near the surface. New technologies in woodburning stove development has seemed to help... but health concerns are still a consideration.
I'm no scientist, Im a Classicist, so forgive me for barging in on this topic with a coment that is probably inaccurate, please do correct me if I'm wrong, but,
I think maybe the point is is that a sustainable forest is capable of growing trees for more wood faster than making wood turn into coal... Therefore, it is more eco friendly as it is a sustainable source of energy. The time it takes to make more coal, well, it is more realistically to call coal/fossil fuels, only-use-onceable.?