Why do wood stoves make so much smoke?

[begreen]

You're right, electrical power uses about twice as much natural gas as residential heating. However, natural gas is one of the most popular fuels for residential heating. According to the American Gas Association, 62 million homes in the U.S are heated using natural gas. Most of the fracked wells in the east are strictly for natural gas.

 

[Brian26]

You're right, electrical power uses about twice as much natural gas as residential heating. However, natural gas is one of the most popular fuels for residential heating. According to the American Gas Association, 62 million homes in the U.S are heated using natural gas. Most of the fracked wells in the east are strictly for natural gas.

Its crazy how much natural gas is flared everyday in the U.S. especially the Permian Basin. I read they flare enough gas there in one day that they could fuel like 5 million homes. This has been making the news alot lately as the flaring is increasing at crazy high rates.

 

[begreen]

It is this waste and disrespect for nature that will be our undoing. Compare this to the perspective of local tribal people that lived where we live, just a couple hundred years before:

"The most important attitude toward all beings and life in general, therefore, was respect, in full awareness that any life form was capable of both good and harm. By showing such respect a human indicated self-worth, sometimes tinged with fear of unexpected consequences. Of all, the most serious of the crimes against nature was waste because this showed disrespect both for a specific spirit and for all life.

In particular, all communal activity sites, particularly those associated with fishing – such as weirs, traps, and platforms – were closely watched, not to keep out intruders but to be aware of whether respect was or was not being shown to nature and its bounty, especially the salmon, who demanded the constant expression of respect if they were to return and stay year after year."