[Greenbuilding] No place for wood burning fireplaces in GreenBuilding

[ernie edwards]

Isn't it similar to having a car that gets 60 miles to
the gallon but your stuck in traffic going nowhere? 

I wouldn't consider myself a tree hugger but it seems
to me a huge irony that each year we cut down millions
of trees, bring them inside our houses, watch them die
and then discard them.

In a simplistic way, whatever we can do to reduce our
energy consumption and still have an acceptable level
of comfort, is a way going in the right direction. 

Happy Holidays,
Ernie


--- Rushd45 <RushD45 at ironandwood.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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