Andy Genovese of Hove Wood Burners compares wood burning with other heating methods.
Heating accounts for nearly half of Europe’s carbon emissions. It’s quite a stark fact and one of the main reasons why domestic heating and carbon reduction is such a hot policy issue for industry, government and lobbyists. Ultimately, we are arguing about which particular by-product of solar radiation is better for us in the short term.
Our candidates in this endeavour are the usual oil, gas (natural and LPG), wood and biomass and, of course, electricity, generated in part by one of the former. About 40% of the UK’s electricity is currently decarbonised (produced from low or near zero carbon sources/renewables). Electricity is problematic from the start in that if 60% of it is produced from non-renewables, stored, transmitted and ultimately used, the efficiency is likely to be poor and . . .
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