Woodburners.

Thanks for that. It is the sort of alternative view that seemed to be drowned out by populist movements

With the added benefit of being able to draw on the ice inside bedroom windows in the morning. 

Until you read his views on glyphosates! 

And that is after the "clean air act"introduced after the Smogs we had,  ,that when out after dark in the " real winters" was a case of feeling your way home 

I think we've come a long way since we lived in blackened towns and villages, covered in soot and coal dust, breathing in winter smog and suffering all sorts of life shortening illnesses. I remember train journeys via soot caked towns on the way to bracing sea side holidays, Pontefract struck me as blacker than the familiar Birmingham where my grandfather ran a chemical works producing coal by-products and my Gt Uncle ran the gas works next door (both works owned by wealthy northern families.)

This is where my Mum grew up, with a nice view of the coal heap from the blackened back garden! 

Maybe the small step of getting people to burn more efficient and less polluting fuels isn't such a bad idea? 

This is Nechells and the ground is still so polluted it can't be built on.

Goldie

I think you have acknowledged in the past that you are relatively isolated from other habitation so your use of solid fuel is unlikely to have any impact on others. Different matter if someone in an urban situation decided to have a wood burning stove (when they have already got a perfectly efficient central heating system) just because it's the fashionable thing to do!!! There will be circumstances where burning wood is the sensible option but in populated areas it has to be questioned.

David

It’s nothing like a blanket ban. Just to try and stop the sale and use of polluting coals and undried logs. Any sensible owner of a stove, wood burning or multi fuel knows the harm that burning such stuff does to the stove as well as the environment. They have become a chic, must have addition for a lot of folks, and I am sure some of them might not have a clue about what they are burning and the harm it might be doing. But properly stored, matured, dried wood isn’t too big an issue, nor are the smokeless fuels. We sweep our chimney regularly, and get nothing out of it to be honest, unlike the days I can recall in my childhood where the pile of soot was huge!

The ban on coal and wet logs is good. We are having two massive beech trees reduced tomorrow, all will be recycled by us. Wood dried and stored, it won’t be touched for a year. Small branches chipped for garden.

London....yep, I’d ban them there. It sits in a geographic bowl, stewing in its own pollution. And I doubt there’s enough local wood to source, dry and store. 

DK, I can assure you that an efficient stove will warm a house through if you get the flows right. Our bills are nothing like our neighbours who use gas and electric heating. We light ours in the evening, and it warms the whole house, certainly the rooms we are using. 🙂

I don't quite get the idea that wood burning is climate neutral. I thought the idea of planting trees is to suck up the CO2. Burning trees rather defeats the objective does it not?

Our house is of solid construction I.e, no cavity wall so is inherently cold.  This means that a wood burner isn’t a luxury fashion accessory it’s is a way of reducing our gas bills. Our electric bill is also reduced by our solar panels.  Our solar panels pay for all our heating, lighting etc costs with a some left over for holidays

Not at all - in an ideal world. The growing tree captures CO2. Burning releases for the next tree.