[Zhang Fei]

In the West burning wood for heat is pretty common to cut on electricity and natgas. Me personally witnessed tons of firewood in backyards of quite opulent Munich neighborhoods and I’ve seen their stoves too.

Their stoves are presumably a little less crude and less smog-prone than those of a poor country with 1/7 the GDP per capita.

[cunning_fish]

>>Their stoves are presumably a little less crude and less smog-prone than those of a poor country with 1/7 the GDP per capita. <<

In fact wood burning techniques hasn’t dramatically advanced through ages. Thus some stoves are a little bit more efficient than the others it doesn’t affect the way it pollutes the environment. Also German house is usually larger and it takes more wood to keep it warm. It fact that makes a stove to smoke above average and also consume significantly more fuel is a wet firewood.