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Environment & Energy

swong19104

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4. Several reasons:

Reply to Red Mountain (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 26, 2023, 09:58 PM

Dec 2023

Not efficient (you can't burn wood at a very high temperature, unlike gas/propane; at least not in a typical fireplace with chimney)
Lots of pollutants and particulate matter
Limited locations within a home to use wood heating
Fire hazard

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A US map on how we heat, as a nation. Pretty interesting. [View all] OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2023 OP

The south is heating their homes with electric heaters swong19104 Dec 2023 #1

Wood is the worst? Red Mountain Dec 2023 #2

Several reasons: swong19104 Dec 2023 #4

That's not how wood heat works bello Dec 2023 #6

A have a wood stove with a catalytic onverter. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2023 #8

Southern homes use electric heat because the equipment is cheap, simple, and safe localroger Dec 2023 #3

All the more reason to put on solar panels in your roof and store the excess energy. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2023 #5

I live in the south, and I can tell you why southerners as a culture are against solar BComplex Dec 2023 #7

Without any evidence to back my assertion..... OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2023 #9

Looks that way in most conversations... BComplex Dec 2023 #10