Generally seen as the must have when marketing houses I have to say we in our village are surrounded by stinking chimneys in our small village, anyone else ?
The advantage we do have is we are 500' amsl and not in a valley and avoid walking out of an evening.
An interesting study.The description of the conditions of the test dont remotely resemble the conditions I live in here in Wales. We have a constant wind / breeze/ howling gale so I will continue to ignore any suggestions to give up burning the rubbish wood I recover from the river bank. Just as I will continue to ignore Dwy Cymru @ advice to save water in a country where it is either raining, about to rain or just briefly stopped raining.
And before anyone suggests that I am being irresponsible, I grew up in Bradford in the days when factories were powered by coal and you literally could not see across the valley. The current situation isnt remotely in that horrible and dangerous league.
What we suffer from in the UK is a media controlled by well meaning idiots obsessed with the latest intellectual fashion. Usually, but not always, woke fashions. But never ever tempered by common sense and a sense of proportion. Sorry for the rant but alarmist media pronouncements drive any real news away and mislead the public. To give a classic example, the public have been led to believe that if you smoke you are likely to get lung cancer. The reality is that the male lifetime risk for smokers is 14.8%. Still a daft and expensive idea but an awful long way from a death sentence.
I remember those days growing up outside Manchester. Sometimes you couldn't see the bus in front of you,the smog was so bad. In the 1960's we went smokeless on Merseyside...coal was banned and we had to use coke for our kitchen stove/ water heater. It was lit by a monster hair dryer which frightened my mother
Now I live on the East coast US and we are chopping trees down by the acre to provide wood pellets for UK power stations. There's a port in my area where they ship them from.
Natural gas is also sent to UK, US is the biggest source after Norway. With Trump the trade will increase and hopefully, given increased supplies, the price will drop.
So the well meaning idiots, in Westminster and the green press, better be careful what they wish for, for without pellets and gas the future of the UK energy industry looks a little dicey!!
