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[RegL]

If you lived around here, you'd understand why they are being regulated. It's really easy to spot the older designs by the heavy smoke pall that settles in around them. Most of the older/cheaper ones operate by maintaining a smoldering fire. Around here, the cheap, wasteful, filthy ones must outsell the clean efficient ones by 10 to1.

I'm a dedicated woodburner - I depend on my woodstove for primary heat, but I've come to absolutely hate those nasty polluting pieces of junk. The valleys and hollows around here are choked with smoke from October through May. It's easy to spot the major contributors by following the smoke plumes. If there's regularly thick smoke, you can count on it coming from a crappy outdoor wood furnace. The owners throw in a half-cord of un-seasoned wood and ignore it for a week (exaggeration for effect).

I am aware that there are good, efficient & clean-burning designs, but there are a huge number of wasteful gross polluting outdoor units that are literally poisoning the market. IMO, it's similar to the diesel vehicle situation - there are lots of efficient, quiet, clean diesels out there, but the noisy stinky ones overwhelm them.

I know what your saying. I've seen some of the old units in certain locations that really smoked things up. Mine has blower stoking the fire when heat is called for. I also live on a hill and there's usually a breeze that dissipates the smoke. Terrain does make a difference. I think I read there are places out West that have banned wood burning all together because smoke gets trapped in in the valleys. My concern with regulations is that new efficient models will get grouped with the old bad ones.

 

[SpringHollow]

There are outdoor wood boilers that produce no smoke and many that only produce a little (mine smokes less than my neighbors' wood burning stoves). And then there are the ones that belch black smoke. It definitely matters what boiler you have, the installation, and how you use it. Like everything else, there are good ones and bad ones.

Ken

 

[jimmyj]

The two bucket box is hilarious! Excellent! :thumbsup: