[Greenbuilding] No place for wood burning fireplaces in GreenBuilding

[Rushd45]

Kat wrote - 

> Burning a wood fire in the middle of nowhere isn't going to hurt anyone.

So I guess it is alright to put an electrical plant that burns coal in the middle of nowhere, it isn't going to hurt anyone, besides it will produce electricty. And I guess it is alright to bury some radioactive waste way down deep in a hole, cause down there it isn't going to hurt anyone. And it is alright to dump hazardous waste way out in the ocean, cause there is so much water and it is so deep....

Come on, get your head out of the sand...

I live in Tucson AZ, actually about 25 miles west in 3 Points. Very rural, and now that it is 'winter' here, in the mornings people build fires to warm their houses. Wood fires, easily recognizable by the mesquite smell and the smoke that lays like a blanket slowly speading away from the chimney. It is very very visible when there is no wind. And even more so, when the smoke plume goes across a road and you have to drive thru it, you notice it very much. 

Here is another way smoke pollutes, it increases the particulate level in the air. So that at night the light level in the skies in our area actually increases during the winter because of the fires and smoke. Observatories have real problems with this, it impacts their abiity to clearly monitor the skies.

Rush
Tucson AZ
www.ironandwood.org