Getting in the Holiday Spirit

[RICHARD]

LOL,

What get's me in the mood is probably the worst for us here is So Cal.....

The smell of fireplaces.

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AQMD be damned!

http://www.aqmd.gov/Default.htm


There was an effort afoot to ban all wood burning fireplaces in the next few years by the board......

[Karen]

Can people not install some sort of scrubber/filter that'll remove the fine particulate matter, and still burn the wood for heating purposes? Surely that'd be a money-making scheme for someone - big powerplants have scrubbers on their stacks ...

[RICHARD]

Can people not install some sort of scrubber/filter that'll remove the fine particulate matter, and still burn the wood for heating purposes? Surely that'd be a money-making scheme for someone - big powerplants have scrubbers on their stacks ...

I don't remember the 'retrofit' particulars for WBFPs but, they would be a ban on all new construction of WBFP-gas only..


A link to the proposal from '07?

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun.../me-fireplace1