Posted on 02/19/2014 12:43:09 PM PST by xzins
Our ever so helpful government has decided that your wood burning stove is now a danger to the world. In another attempt to outlaw the off grid lifestyle, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the same agency that was recently caught using drones to spy on Americans, is now going after home owners who use Wood Burning Stoves to heat their homes.
Shortly after the re-election of President Obama, the agency announced new radical environmental regulations that threaten to effect people who live off the grid. The EPA’s new environmental regulations reduce the amount of airborne fine-particle matter from 15 micrograms to 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air.
This means that most wood burning stoves would now fall into a class that would deemed unacceptable under these new draconian measures. The EPA has even launched a nifty new website called burn wise to try to sway public opinion.
On their site, while trying to convince people to get rid of their old stoves and buy the new EPA-certified stoves, they state that these older stove must be scraped and cannot be resold.
From the EPA Site:
The local air pollution agency says I can’t sell my old wood stove to help pay for an EPA-certified wood stove. Why is that? Replacing an older stove with a cleaner-burning stove will not improve air quality if the older stove is reused somewhere else. For this reason, wood stove change out programs usually require older stoves to be destroyed and recycled as scrap metal, or rendered inoperable.
Let’s hope this doesn’t fall under the jurisdiction of the newly created Department of Homeland Security Environmental Justice Units? The next thing you know we might all be getting a knock at the door….. Your Neighbor reported that you might be burning some wood, do you mind if we take a look around?
Well darlin', this whole mortality thing strikes me as havin' been rigged to begin with anyway.
But hopefully they won't swoop til after <girls curling semi-finals>
lol .. cheers !
So build a brick one with metal parts where needed. Easy enough IMO and cheaper than buying one IMO.
I have ....... I’m still waiting.
First they ban Edison (lightbulbs) and now Franklin (wood stoves).
Ya kinda missed the point. The number of people willing to build a wood stove are vanishingly small compared to those who want one and would buy one if still legal.
The Left has learned to be content with a few hardcore dissidents if the vast majority can be deterred from “undesirable” behavior.
Makes me want to get two oil drums and make a stove to heat my North Dakota home.
My buddy has a hunting camp at higher elevation in upstate NY with a huge wood stove welded from 1/4 inch scrap plate steel. Couple of iron hinges weld in place make for a door. Places goes from 20 degrees to sweating in one hour.
I crack the doors a couple inches...works for me!!!
thank you! I am BUYING that one!
This is utter nonsense.
The smoke from just one of the wild fires that are cause by the failure to properly harvest and clear our forests will be greater than all of the wood stoves in the country could make in a century.
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If I’m not mistaken, a rain drop cannot form unless it starts to condense on a particle of dust or ash.
Oh, yeah.
Wouldn’t wanna miss *that* adrenaline rush.
;]
My outdoor furnace heats a blanket of water around the fire chamber, pumps the water underground to a heat exchange in my backup furnace vent system and then blows it throughout the house. One of the outside lines goes to my water heater and heats the water, and another to a separate building we have and heats it. It’s pulling quite a load really. Like any woodburning system, it loses heat up the smokestack, but it’s a long burn chamber so a huge amount of the heat directly heats the water.
d:^P
Thanks for the link.With 262 videos I’m going to be busy for a while.we have so much wood available on the farm plus my Amish friends operate a sawmill and sell slabwood to us really cheap.When I cut and stack it,a cord costs us about 18 bucks.
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I have the same situation. I have tons of wood available, and I just wish I had this guy’s expertise. He can run a gas generator on a wood burning stove! He had one video where he coiled some copper wire in a bucket, buried it under the ground, and was getting current out of it. Not a ton of current, but it was a start.
Lopi
They're going to have to hire a huge number of EPA goons to go into the woods. These tender feet are going to disappear into the great American wilderness after the locals apply the 3S System to them. [3S System = shoot, shovel, shut-up.]
Amazing how all these EPA thugs disappear isn't it? i wonder...hmmmm.
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