EPA should ban unseasoned wood burning

I dont believe they should, but since they were so concerned with having stoves with better combustion they would ban unseasoned wood burning. Having people burn seasoned wood would be just as good as the stoves they helped bring to market. Just thinking.

Probably not the worst thing people have burned in their stoves.

Don't give them any ideas! They're out of control as it is!

Sometimes that is all people have.

Might be better to make sure wood sellers don't sell wet wood. Especially when they advertise it as "seasoned".

No. No EPA. Use reason and educate. We are Americans.

That's true. There should be a legal limit for moisture content and calling it "seasoned".

I cant wait until you can only burn "EPA approved fuel" in your EPA stove.

Or a better suggestion would be to design a stove that burns > 90% efficiency with less then seasoned wood.

Saying a ban on unseasoned wood would give the EPA the authority to come into your home and fine you if the moisture meter does not read what they want it to read.

Classic!

Ja, forget about personal responsibility on the homeowner/woodburners part.
I witnessed first hand how the government (USDA) handled the EAB and it was/is a joke.
If I had to season all the wood I sell for 2+ years I'd charge $600 cord. It wood take 3 times the handling I do now and 20 acres of ground.
What's next ,,,,,, regulated well done sushi !!

How many BTUs in a[well seasoned] Bureaucrat?

Right on Lee.

A water burner?

As long as you dont try to claim it is already seasoned,no harm done.

No stove burns > 90% efficiency with even dry wood. Take out the "burns > 90% efficiency" requirement and you have an OWB. Those OWB guys claim they are designed to burn green wood. Heck they even have one called Greenwood.

The EPA stoves won't burn green wood anyway so this whole thread topic is moot.

Then you probably wouldn't like the German solution either. Last I heard they test your boiler/stove for emissions with a drop down probe in the chimney. If it doesn't pass you are given a chance to correct it. When they come back if it doesn't pass the heating appliance goes with them. Randy

Banning unseasoned wood... that's about as enforceable as the speed limit. good luck.

And I have to disagree it would solve the smoke issue. An airtight (pre-epa) stove with the air choked off is going to smoulder and smoke no matter how dry the wood. There may be less smoke but it will still be smoke.

Wee bit paranoid?

Want EPA into designing stoves now? Or just pushing the impractical?

Define "seasoned" precisely, please.

3 times a charm BB.