Wood for heat on the rise in the U.S.
Wood heat is back, with people rushing to buy wood-pellet stoves. While the newer wood stoves are more energy efficient, people are also turning back to their less-efficient, more polluting wood-burning devices. Why? According to the NY Times, the rising cost of oil and propaneAir pollution is still a major concern with wood burning in general. A 2006 report from the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management discovered the particulate emissions from one outdoor wood boiler equaled that of 22 wood stoves, 205 oil furnaces or as many as 8,000 natural gas furnaces. And air pollution is not the only concern, house fires are also on the rise.
To learn more about wood pellet stoves, see Green Daily's Ellen Slattery's article, "The Low-Down on Wood Pellet Stoves."
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