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The Age of Fire is nearly over (treehugger.com)
15 points by hyperhello on April 25, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I doubt that burning wood for heat is over, and will ever be.

1) It's something we seem to enjoy at a very primitive level, I'm guessing that hominids that enjoyed a fire were more likely to not be eaten by predators, and could acquire more nutrition from food after cooking.

2) People always want a back-up because power grids are still fallible.

Also...

> The problem goes beyond the release of greenhouse gases as wood is converted to heat

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/11/09/climate-curious-is-...

The point about particulate is correct, but there multiple methods of reducing that in action already.




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