The doomsday cult wants to restrict you from using natural gas fireplaces, wants to restrict natural gas heat for your homes, restrict coal energy, do away with nuclear, and make you dependent on unreliable wind and solar
From the screed
In 50 years, my father-in-law has never run out of wood.
Since building a wood-heated cabin in Maine in the early 1970s, he has started each summer collecting balsam, birch and maples that fell or died over the winter. That’s kept the wood pile stacked and the cold at bay.
Many fireplace lovers — myself once included — assume burning wood to stay warm and cozy is a climate win: trees regrow, suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and keep fossil fuels in the ground if forests are managed responsibly. My father-in-law’s forest in Maine is as vigorous as always.
But my intuition was wrong, according to hundreds of scientists who have examined the question. Thanks to the physics of combustion, wood emits 2.5 times as much CO? than natural gas and 30 percent more than coal when burned for heat, except in a few narrow circumstances. When it comes to nasty particulates lodging in our lungs and organs, it’s far worse than any fossil fuel.
Oh, piss off.
That doesn’t mean we should extinguish fireside nights. After all, fireplaces emit a tiny, tiny fraction of total emissions. But we can dramatically improve what we burn and where we source it.
Here’s how to burn better (and why electricity is still the hottest thing around).
Yeah, I’m done, these people are such nags.
Me? I like our gas fireplace, just like I liked our wood stove in our previous home. When it gets too cold for the heat pump. or the sparktricity fails, we still have heat and a cozy home. F(ornicate) the busybodies who want to run our lives!
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If the usually wrong, agenda driven crybabies at the Washington Post are against it, I’m for it. No more hauling trees to the recyclers. Maybe I’ll save them up for the Earth Day bonfire.
The perennially pissed-off scold, William, is just making up scheisse now. The increasingly conservative WaPo did NOT advise ending fireplaces and wood stoves, but only how to make them safer, more efficient and more cost-effective. Healthier and cheaper – what’s wtong with that??
Take the advice or leave it – why soooo pissed off all the time?
Mr Teach of course chose a natural gas fireplace. For his by himself fireside evenings
When we lived in Plattsburgh, NY we survived 27 days without power during an ice storm, mostly thanks to our Vermont Castings woodstove. It kept our 1000-sq ft home comfortable, and was so efficient that after 24 hours of burning, there was hardly any ash to dispose of. It burned so clean that from outside, you had to really look close to see any smoke coming from the chimney. That plus having hooked up to town water the previous summer made the big difference. We used a camping stove, and a stash of oil lamps from my tour in Turkey (In Ankara, we got 3-6 hours of electricity a day, 4-5 days a week).