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23rd Mar 2018taconia commented on:
Do you use an open fire or wood burning stove?I've burned wood in good wood stoves for over 40 years and still cut, split, and burn my own wood. For the user's health, a good airtight woodstove, especially with an air draw from outside (through the wall small pipe), should be zero threat, and certainly less than ducted air that often carries fungal spores and insect droppings from the ducts. Everyone burning wood, however, has to take responsibility for putting into the air significant amounts of particulates and carcinogens. My friends who are proud greens and burn wood, don't admit that on a per capita or per BTU basis, they put more pollutants into the air than any power plant using any fuel. My rationale is that I have (18 acres 6.6 hectares) of marsh and forest that lock up far more pollutants than I create. Open fireplaces, of course, are exceptionally polluting indoors and out and put 80 to 90% of the BTUs up the chimney. Terrible waste of trees, but nice looking, of course.