QUOTE (x2lls @ Oct 11 2012, 07:19 PM)
Last year, my immediate neighbour had one installed and now another, across the road has also installed one. We have not had any whiff of the first, but since the second one went in a few days ago, we have smelled it almost every evening. That is certainly due to the prevailing wind. We have our windows open all year round, so we now find the smell is in every room of our home.
My point here is, would the proliferation of domestic wood burners be counter to efforts to reduce carbon emissions? I think in the long term it would. Not to the degree to cause smog, as in the decades long gone, but surely it cannot be positive.
I must admit though, the smell of burning wood is nostalgic.
Whilst I have no objection (currently), surely it cannot be good for the environment.
Says a bloke who smokes and has barbeques!!!
Depending on what period of tie you are considering, wood burning is carbon neutral. You would only be releasing the the carbon that was sequestered during the growth of the trees.
Oil is effectively the same,, but was sequestered millions of years ago in the dinosaurs!
So as I say, it all depends on the time period you consider.