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> Once they have exited your chimney, the toxic gases (e.g. benzene) and particles that make up smoke

Keep in mind that modern wood stoves have catalytic combustors that burn the wood, then the smoke, then usually the smoke again.

They extract vastly more heat from the wood, and they emit vastly less toxic gasses out the stovepipe.

Also note they are legally required in many, many places now.

(Older stoves and fireplaces are grandfathered in, but you can't install a new "old" stove in many towns around the world)



Heating with wood is also carbon-neutral.


Only if you replant the trees.


This may come as a shock to you but trees do, in fact, replant themselves just fine without human intervention.


Ya, the realistic alternative to carbon-neutral wood burning is carbon-intensive natural gas burning... How is that better?


Have you not heard of heat-pumps? I know they won't work according to old wive tales, but they actually do.


I'm not arguing that they don't work, but the "realistic" alternative is that people will still mostly use natural gas if they end up stopping wood-burning. Heat Pumps are also still using a mostly-fossil-fuel grid at times where there's the least solar and the grid is most carbon-intensive. Thus, wood burning is still the only carbon-neutral option. I'd still rather see heat pumps on a fully renewable grid, but we should have less carbon emissions getting there.


yes I'm mainly complaining about grandfathered in stoves, or such which are incorrectly installed maintained




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