EPA issue ban on wood stoves

[mbohuntr]

I have burned wood most of my life, and never really experienced inversions or excessive smoke from us or any of our neighbors. The last few years, I have noticed many outdoor boilers sooting BADLY. You could hardly see the road for several hundred feet. I wouldn't be opposed to regs on those nasty polluters, and keep the existing regs on stoves and fireplaces. Ours didn't smoke at all most of the time, just clear fumes rising out of the chimney. We usually burned 10 - 15 face cord of hardwood per season. the pellet stove we use right now smokes worse.

 

[chopped]

aR EPELLET STOVES MORE EFFICIENT?

I have burned wood most of my life, and never really experienced inversions or excessive smoke from us or any of our neighbors. The last few years, I have noticed many outdoor boilers sooting BADLY. You could hardly see the road for several hundred feet. I wouldn't be opposed to regs on those nasty polluters, and keep the existing regs on stoves and fireplaces. Ours didn't smoke at all most of the time, just clear fumes rising out of the chimney. We usually burned 10 - 15 face cord of hardwood per season. the pellet stove we use right now smokes worse.

 

[ultrarunner]

I have burned wood most of my life, and never really experienced inversions or excessive smoke from us or any of our neighbors. The last few years, I have noticed many outdoor boilers sooting BADLY. You could hardly see the road for several hundred feet. I wouldn't be opposed to regs on those nasty polluters, and keep the existing regs on stoves and fireplaces. Ours didn't smoke at all most of the time, just clear fumes rising out of the chimney. We usually burned 10 - 15 face cord of hardwood per season. the pellet stove we use right now smokes worse.

That is kind of my point... my area has always had rules against excessive smoke and trash burning... same for any car the belches smoke too.

It's just now the burn bans apply to anyone burning... no matter if it is the old fireplace or the latest EPA clean certified wood stove... one size fits all!

 

[zzvyb6]

Obama administration faces backlash on proposed wood stove regulations | Fox News

 

[truetractoring]

I've been burning wood in a high efficiency wood stove for 20 years, and just replenished the wood stockpile, so, by no means am I for banning wood stoves. However, I just installed a ductless heat pump, and amazed how cheap it is to run, and the comfort level is amazing. The heat pump outside unit is an inverter style that speeds up and slows down according to heat/cooling load requirement of the house. The system does not cycle on/off like standard heating units.

Long story short, my wood burning days are coming to a close due to the super efficient new inverter heat pump technology. I live on the west coast with mild winters, and found the heat pump to work best when temps are no lower than 25 degrees f. Efficiency drops significantly at 20 and below.

 

[mbohuntr]

aR EPELLET STOVES MORE EFFICIENT?

I really don't know as we live in a different house as well. I do know I can walk outside on most any given day and if the wind is just right, the smoke will sting my eyes. This house will heat almost exclusively on 4 tons of pellets per year. It is, however a much better insulated house than our last which was log. (We were told by the kit seller of all the high R values and thermal mass bunk... NOT!) The pellets aren't burning as hot as the fireplace or stoves so I think there are more unburned gasses from the pellets.

 

[sparc]

I think you are naive if you don't think this is simply one of several steps to outright ban or regulate out of business any energy source that isn't politically correct, which of course would include wood burning, just as it has been with coal burning, fossil fuels, etc.

its not about fuels that are viewed as not PC, it's about the companies who make their living off fuels eliminating ANY form of competition or alternative fuel, no matter how small of a slice of the total energy picture it occupies.

When you have oil companies buying up patents for better chemistry batteries destined for use in electric cars and locking them away THAT'S what it's all about. Through their lobbyists in DC they are slowly either eliminating the competition or buying it up and making it their own.

 

[mbohuntr]

its not about fuels that are viewed as not PC, it's about the companies who make their living off fuels eliminating ANY form of competition or alternative fuel, no matter how small of a slice of the total energy picture it occupies.

When you have oil companies buying up patents for better chemistry batteries destined for use in electric cars and locking them away THAT'S what it's all about. Through their lobbyists in DC they are slowly either eliminating the competition or buying it up and making it their own.

Agreed, and add a group of irrational tree huggers who cannot grasp the concepts of "carbon neutral" or "renewable resource."

 

[RoyJackson]

Interesting article on EPA malfeasance...
DRIESSEN: Clean-air rules and junk science at the EPA - Washington Times

 

[SPIKER]

Interesting article on EPA malfeasance...
DRIESSEN: Clean-air rules and junk science at the EPA - Washington Times

EPA needs to be reined in see this one?

Articles: EPA Studies and Preordained Conclusions

There was an additional article on a rancher in NV being targeted by EPA for cattle grazing as well but lost that link.

Mark