Wood Burning At Home
The title of this post, is the same as that of the title on the home page of this web site.
I actually accessed the page as it appeared as an advert on something I was looking at on the Internet.
This is the sub-heading.
How do you feel about open fires, wood burners and even wood smoke?
These four paragraphs make up the home page.
It has long been known that the small particles released by solid fuel burning can stay in the air and even travel long distances. These small particles, when inhaled, can increase your risk of stroke, asthma, lung cancer, heart disease and dementia.
It is estimated that around 4,000 premature deaths occur each year in London due to long-term exposure to air pollution, of which about 284 are attributable to domestic wood burning. Every one of those 284 deaths is completely avoidable.
Domestic wood burning has a health and economic cost of about £187 million per year in London. That’s a cost of £24 for every London resident, whether you burn solid fuels or not.
The most effective way of reducing pollution and protecting everyone’s health is simply to avoid burning any wood, coal, or other solid fuels at home.
As I don’t have naked flames at all in my house, this doesn’t apply to me.
When I helped to fund two guys, who were developing a metered dose inhaler for asthma drugs, I did my due diligence before I invested.
I found some research, that said that naked flames and the oxides of nitrogen they produce, were one of the main causes of asthma.
So I avoid them and don’t do barbecues, bonfires, gas cookers or gas fires.
Incidentally, the two guys did develop the metered dose inhaler for asthma drugs and it is now prescribed as Respimat. It is totally mechanical, with no compressed gases or batteries.
The Anonymous Widower 
NO and thence NO2 are produced by combustion, in particular in older car engines, however the half life is around 90s. You can tell where it is high because sunburst and gold dust lichen will proliferate on trees, street furniture etc. where NO is high.
Of course Khan has used this to create a moral panic about older cars and have a ULEZ zone to tax the small proportion of older vehicles, soon headed for the scrap heap anyway, that don’t have better than Euro 4 compliance. The real objective is to create a “Wall of the Farmers General” around greater London and tax ALL those who drive into it, but can’t vote him out.
Comment by R. Mark Clayton | December 27, 2023 |
So why is he cutting buses in wards like mine, where he probably doesn’t get a big majority? But even those, who would normally vote for him are saying they won’t vote for him again.
But the candidates, who have declared so far are a dreadful load of no-hopers.
Comment by AnonW | December 27, 2023 |