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0 pointslegulere4y ago0 comments

Most countries in Europe have banned burning coal at home for decades. For heating burning wood is a major source of pollution. Other reasons are cars and the relatively high population density.

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mnd9994y ago

Enforcement is pretty lax though, plenty of folks in the suburbs burning coal and logs on their ‘trendy’ open fires.

mensetmanusman4y ago

The particulate output of these pales in comparison to the coal plants though. Reminds me of when China clamped down on street vendors who used open fires while ignoring the steel plants down the road.

79524y ago

Tonnes of release doesnt tell the whole story though. Domestic burners are closer to the ground and other humans. Coal power stations have stacks to shoot the emissions higher in the atmosphere.

In developed countries it just seems like a backward step when people can afford something better than fashion driven legacy technology.

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legulereOP4y ago

Coal plants in Europe are much cleaner than they used to be (still we should work on shutting them down).

Nowadays emissions from traffic, industry in general and heating all are in the same order of magnitude: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/air-quality-atlas-europe-ma...

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