Posts Tagged ‘woodstoves’

8 Dec
2013

Pollution and Wood Burning Fireplaces

Posted by Norman F, December 8th, 2013

fireplace, fireplace efficiency

It was another Spare the air night in the San Francisco area, where it is illegal to burn wood, pellets, or manufactured fire logs. The Spare the Air winter season runs from November 1, through the end of February.

An article showing how bad wood smoke pollutes during bad air days in the San Francisco Bay Area was surprising. Pretty shocking that 1/3 of fine particulate matter is from wood smoke.

How harmful is smoke from burning wood?

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