Posted on 11/17/2013 9:09:47 AM PST by rktman
A lawsuit filed against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by seven states is seeking to force the federal agency to impose stringent new regulations on residential wood-burning heaters, which they claim “can increase particle pollution to levels that cause significant health concerns.” (See EPA wood-burning lawsuit.pdf)
The lawsuit, filed last month in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by the attorneys general of Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont, is directed against currently unregulated “indoor and outdoor wood boilers,” which have become an increasingly popular way to heat homes, particularly in rural areas.
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They'd be much better off with heavily regulated solar power provided by some crony capitalist and a subsidy from the government they can think about keeping when going to the polls.
Well, you gotta admit they did wonders in the Klamath Basin. NOT! Go Bucket Brigade!
Well, they could build themselves a gasifier, continue to burn wood and make no smoke.
You can build it to utilize many different solid fuels, the gas it produces burns as a blue flame, or can run an engine.
Railroad ties are treated lumber, right?
Sue them for releasing toxins into the air, LOL
When I think of a rural area, I think of homes about 100 yards apart. Some may be a mile apart.
I’m sure there’s a real danger of those people being harmed by the neighbor’s wood fire. /s
Some leaders deserve to face the people they make laws for, with their backs to a wall when those people have a stone in their hand.
Better for people to freeze to death.
Good thing we lost our woodburner in that bad boating accident.
I think the epa is getting ready to send all the forests a memorandum of understanding that they should cease and desist from any and all fires henceforth. That ought to do it. /s
Those states are not known for balmy winters-they want everyone to freeze?
Well, with the rate of climb in temperatures they’re experiencing, they should be fairly warm within a year or two.
Thank goodness for glo-bull warming. I guess we’re fundamentally transforming the weather.
***I was trying to buy some old railroad ties, was told they were all sold to the generators.***
Creosote in those railroad ties burn real well! Makes a fire last a long time.
That was certainly the idea, and the Anti-Federalists almost defeated ratification of a constitution without one.
OTOH, James Madison knew bills of rights had proved to be mere parchment barriers that often went by the wayside. He determined the best way to secure republican freedom was through separation of powers. First and foremost was vertical separation, meaning a senate of the states.
Better for EPA lickspittles freeze to death (there, I fixed it).
These are not fireplaces or wood-burning stoves that are inside the house.
They are outdoor wood-fired boilers that make hot water which is piped to the house for heat.
They make SMOKE lots and lots of it. And it doesn't rise the way smoke usually does, the interior of the boiler is cool so the smoke is cool. The combustion is inefficient because of this. Because water is piped to the house, they can be installed far away from the house, say on the property line. The neighbors get enough smoke to make their houses unlivable, but the boiler owner gets the heat and not the smoke.
I don't know about you, but when my neighbor installs something that gives him heat and me unlivable smoke, I don't like it. He destroys much of my property value to save less that $1k per year on heating costs.
My question is,
does the problem between two neighbors that you describe
require a federal bureaucracy to intervene?
Actually, if you start with some money and work, a little or a lot, it makes a lot of sense to have what is called an oven-stove or tile stove. They are a heck of a lot more efficient than air convection stoves for heat, and the fuel is burned a lot more thoroughly, so produces very little smoke. Unless, of course, you *like* to chop wood.
(lots of pretty pictures of oven stoves and tile stoves.)
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/12/tile-stoves.html
http://www.rvharvey.com/kachelofen.htm
I agree. BTW, the tactic is called ‘sue and settle’.
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