Followers of my blog will know that I have been warning about wood burning stoves for some years. Let me make my position clear. There is no harm in having a few wood burning stoves in rural locations where there is a plentiful supply of waste wood. However, large scale deployment of wood burning stoves and boilers is wrong. They have two complimentary faults. They use wood which is better left to decay naturally over a long period of time, keeping the carbon locked in or leached to the soil and they create carbon dioxide emissions when the wood is burnt. (more…)
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