No smoke without fire
Herself likes those property programmes on television.
You know the ones – where the presenters bring prospective buyers around showing them houses in the hopes they’ll find the perfect home.
I mention this as it becomes obvious that one of the prime attractions of a prospective home is an open fireplace. And the only thing that tops an open fireplace is a log-burner. The latter have become one of the great attractions and people are spending a fortune on them.
Our gubmint is hoping to fuck over all those poor bastards who have spent a fortune installing the latest and greatest wood-burner. In fact they hope to fuck over anyone who has an open fireplace at all.
Ban on turf and other smoky fuels considered by Coalition
Now a ban on coal, wood and turf leaves precious little to burn? Paper is a possibility but you’d need to order dozens of newspapers a day to keep that going. I suppose there could be a market for dried cow-pats?
If their little plan comes to fruition, it will overnight make all wood-burners and open fires redundant, not to mention all those very expensive kitchen ranges.
I don’t know the figures but I would imagine that there is a vast number of homes that don’t have central heating at all and that rely on the open fire [with or without a back-boiler or wood-burner] for heating their home? What the fuck are they to do? Freeze?
Of course those of us with oil fired central heating are going to be fucked too because oil, as we all know is the work of the devil and almost entirely responsible for every storm or drought that comes our way. It’s only a matter of time before oil is banned too.
So what’s left?
There is only one alternative which is electricity and that is soon to be dependent on wind and sunshine. It also puts all the eggs in one basket – one power cut and we’re all fucked [and frozen]. So the only time we can heat our homes is when the sun is shining and it’s blowing half a gale outside. A few calm winter’s nights will see half the population succumbing to hypothermia.
I’m getting very tired of this politically correct climate shite.
I know I have mentioned this before, but I live in north Norway. In Norway the choices for heating the home are oil fired central heating, wood burning or electriciy (no piped gas). Fortunately electricity is relatively cheap (compared to income) in Norway as most is generated by hydroelectric plants, but having a wood burning stove as a back up in case of power outages is absolutely normal.
Oil fired heating is relatively expensive and fairly unusual around our way. In the last decade or so a lot of new homes have been built without a chimney. This is so stupid that many households have invested in a steel pipe type chimney that can be installed through the roof. Difficult in a block of flats of course. Temperatures here on our little island can drop to -12 to -15 centigrade so an extra jumper wouldn't help much and inland temperatures below -30 are not unusual.
If anyone suggested banning wood burning stoves and fireplaces here I suspect there would be riots.
Do politicians burn??
Just a thought.
Loads of fat. Should burn well?
Naturally the events happening right now in California, where thousands are without electricity because their distribution infrastructure clapped out and proven to start fires, is of no consequence to them.
First thing they'll do is instal a 500 kw diesel back up generator in their parliament.
We're okay Jack, pull up the ladder.
In northern Spain, wood burning for heat and cooking is quite common. A ban might possibly be the spark to light a riot.
Gasifiying wood burners produce next to no smoke. Rocket stoves burn twigs very effectively although a tad smoky.
Russian style tile ovens and dutch kachelofens are both mass heaters that keep people cozy warm on next to noo wood/twigs
Any combination of the above and one is sorted, Fuck the pollies.
What would make the Irish people annoyed enoug to torch the parliament?
Don’t you know there’s a Climate Emergency(tm) Grandad? We need to Panic NOW !!! and do Emergency Things(tm) like banning fires because the Planet only has eleven and a bit years and its All Our Fault!
Expect plenty of Emergency Measures comming your way soon…
I thought we only have five years?
We have 6 years actually which will most likely stretch out to several hundred thousand. By then we humans may be long gone and the earth will be long gone back to nature. Best yet, there won't be any governments to screw over the people who are not there anymore.
In Vermont a study was recently done on houses that were heated by wood burning stoves/furnaces. The conclusion was that wood burning for heat was almost a thing of the past in Vermont. It makes me wonder if these "researchers" went outside there little conference rooms and actually talked to all the home owners that still heat their homes with wood.