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Am I an Arsehole for having a fire in the fireplace in 2020?
- Thread starter SlicedFeet
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NO!
I just had one last night, and probably tonight as well.
In my hood, i hear people complaining about other peoples wood fires, how it messes up their allergies, etc.
Bunch of whiners. Why did they build homes with fireplaces in them anyways, right? It's not like out in the forest, only source of heat, needed for cooking etc. Doesn't happen all year long, especially in socal.
Enjoy your fire, I am enjoying mine!!
I just had one last night, and probably tonight as well.
In my hood, i hear people complaining about other peoples wood fires, how it messes up their allergies, etc.
Bunch of whiners. Why did they build homes with fireplaces in them anyways, right? It's not like out in the forest, only source of heat, needed for cooking etc. Doesn't happen all year long, especially in socal.
Enjoy your fire, I am enjoying mine!!
There are "no-burn days", at least in some CA counties, and it includes wood burning fireplaces, fire pits, wood burning stoves, issued by air control districts, and agriculture burning issued by the fire dept. I'm not how aggressively they actually enforce the fireplace no burn days but there are fines. If they want to, it's not too difficult to see line of smoke coming out of a fireplace from 5 miles away on a cold day.
Biggest Scam in the history of history. Create a brand new market place for a global product that is virtually invisible and doesn't cost anything. Assign a value to it, force people to trade it, and get in the middle of the transaction to take a cut. Forehead slap.
No burn days here are for fire danger in the summer and days when, because of the weather, smoke will settle near where it is burned and will be aggravating sensitive groups, smog, etc..
I will say about the only time I hate fire burning smoke is wildfires, and that little campground in big sur called ferndale where people want to stoke up their night before's fires in the morning when there is no wind and it settles over the whole valley floor in the camprground. 
P U!
P U!yep.I will say about the only time I hate fire burning smoke is wildfires, and that little campground in big sur called ferndale where people want to stoke up their night before's fires in the morning when there is no wind and it settles over the whole valley floor in the camprground.
same idea for cities....
I love having a fireplace. I get the chimney cleaned and I have a chimney cap. Heats up 1/2 of my small house at night.
When it gets somewhat chilly here multiple neighbors have their stinky fire places going, fire pits going, etc. It's chill unless your downwind, then it sucks!
Clean your chimney too. Mine got blocked with creosote. Smoked up the whole house when a big old chunk of the stuff fell into a bend in the chimney. Couldn't believe how much came out of it. If that stuff had caught fire my chimney woulda looked like this:
So basically the carbon from everything we burn “goes into the next” something.
Nope,
The carbon from a tree burned will go into the replacement tree.
The carbon burnt from fossil fuel overwhelms the growth rate of organic matter, so it gets stored in the ocean and atmosphere. We burn faster than plants grow. There in lies the problem.
So as if by magic the carbon from burned wood only goes into making another tree?
wow. Amazing.
Yea, chemistry is amazing.
If a tree has 200 pounds of carbon in it, and you release all 200 pounds into the air, and another growing sapling becomes a tree of the same size, it will breath in those 200 pounds of carbon in the form of CO2.
Just ask Bill Nye
We had one when I was a young lad.
If I remember they can be almost too effective in modern insulated homes.
I don't think it gets and stays cold enough in Southern CA to make it practical in a modern home.
We have a small gas fireplace and its just enough for us to never run the heat. 6 years now and we have only run the heat after returning the last 2 years after being gone 10 days over Christmas. 67 inside.
It's great to get it on in front of any fireplace. Let the chick warm up in front of it. Pussy gets toasty.
It's great to get it on in front of any fireplace. Let the chick warm up in front of it. Pussy gets toasty.