BBC News report on Woodburners

In an extract from the BBC NEWS website on 14th Jan 19 by Matt McGrath Environment correspondent he said: ‘Most people don\'t realise that a wood burning stove emits more particles per hour than a diesel truck’. Well, I would like to just prove that this statement is incorrect, you can see from this chart below. You can also see how much more eco-friendly a stove is compared to an open fire. In fact, the more recent ECOdesignready models produce even less than this. He then continues to add  ‘....that\'s because a freshly cut log of wood contains about a pint of water, and much of the heat energy is used to dry the water out, which causes the wood to smoke and smoulder, releasing air pollutants’. Even though in this statement he is correct about the loss of heat energy in burning wet wood, he is assuming every person with a woodburner only burns wet wood, he does not mention that people with open fires are also capable of burning wet wood nor that open fires

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