Comments on: Are Wood Burners Bad for the Environment?

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 01:54:18 +0000

In reply to Maurice McKinley. If you're east of the Mississippi and rural it's easy to get wood locally and plenty of wood rots instead of being used.

By: Maurice McKinley

Maurice McKinley — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:28:18 +0000

I was thinking of replacing my old wood burner with a more efficient one but I’m not convinced that it will be carbon neutral. I understand that much of the wood supply is coming from forests in north and south America and I doubt if it regenerates as fast as we can burn it. Maybe not so bad if we use locally procured logs but do we grow enough?

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:49:23 +0000

Second log burner just installed to burn wood of under 10% moisture. It gas an A* rating no evidence on soot in the hearth and secondary burn can be seen in action…. And when the chimney was cleaned on my 1st log burner (after 3 years of use) a few spoonfuls of soot was all that was detected. On both stoves I nearly a week without emptying the ash pan. I barely use my oil fired central heating which I will convert to HVO shortly.One log burner heats the water. I have thermal solar panels for hot water in the summer, and have solar voltaic , which in 4 years has saved 13 tonnes of carbon and I have fed 10.5 Mw back to the grid. Whilst taking only 3.4 Mw back to cover the overnight and winter shortfall. I am like many trying to do my bit. I would love to see all new builds have solar roofs. Surely this is the way to go? Further our rivers have many weirs perhaps we should convert them to provide electricity? I am desperately seeking permission from Western power to install additional battery backup but they are so dragging their heels. Grrrr!

By: G Thompson

G Thompson — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 15:50:20 +0000

Isn’t it possible to get some sort of filter for the chimney to stop the soot being released into the air?

By: forest

forest — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:22:49 +0000

In reply to Joe.

Hi Joe,
You’re correct in the fact that kiln dried logs massively reduce the amount of soot released into the air, so long as the moisture content is below 20%.
However, this doesn’t completely eliminate the small amounts of soot, just significantly reduces it.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 05:24:38 +0000

I have been told as long as you burn Kim dried logs this is absolutely fine,that’s what we do?