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Wood fire? There is nothing worse for the environment Although the carbon you release by burning wood was recently sequestered by the tree, rather than Ga ago,
by madaxe 13y ago
Wood fire? There is nothing worse for the environment
Although the carbon you release by burning wood was recently sequestered by the tree, rather than Ga ago, as with petrochemicals, so the net carbon shift is relatively neutral.
Point taken re: nanoparticulates, but wood is nowhere near as bad as fossil fuels.
- ars 13y ago> Point taken re: nanoparticulates, but wood is nowhere near as bad as fossil fuels. That is not true. Wood smoke is much worse.
- madaxe 13y agoMuch worse in terms of nanoparticulates, yes - I'm not disagreeing with that - but with wood you're releasing carbon that was currently extant in the biosphere, rather than carbon which was sequestered hundreds of millions of years ago.