The climate change debate continues.

[nomadpete]

6 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

Keeping warm and snug with a lovely coal fire this morning.

We'll have none of that in Hobart.

We like clean air. We banned them, and we have roving fireplace nazis that go around checking chimney temperatures to make sure. Fireplaces are so eighteen hundreds.

 

We use hydro powered home heating.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Whereabouts are/were you as the sale and use of coal for domestic use in Engalnd has been banned for ages. Often, where coas is allowed,  they will use smokeless processed form of anthracite..

 

Edited yesterday at 08:44 PM by Jerry_Atrick

[spacesailor]

Most modern houses ( in Australia ) are built without chimney & fireplaces .

Which means they ' catch-fire ' easily , as shown  news so often .

Cold night , just burn some sticks,  next to the plastic-foam three-piece suit. 

spacesailor

[pmccarthy]

8 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Whereabouts are/were you as the sale and use of coal for domestic use in Engalnd has been banned for ages. Often, where coas is allowed,  they will use smokeless processed form of anthracite..

 

In Scotland they still sell and use coal. The coal sellers have banner signs beside the road advertising it, 

 

I know at least one pub near Lithgow in NSW that uses a coal fire, I don’t know where they get it.

 

There is no smell inside, almost no smoke, but a wonderful smell outside that takes me back to the days of steam trains.

[Marty_d]

9 hours ago, nomadpete said:

We'll have none of that in Hobart.

We like clean air. We banned them, and we have roving fireplace nazis that go around checking chimney temperatures to make sure. Fireplaces are so eighteen hundreds.

 

We use hydro powered home heating.

Really?

 

Everyone in our neighbourhood still has a wood heater.

[nomadpete]

4 hours ago, spacesailor said:

2 hours ago, Marty_d said:

Really?

 

Everyone in our neighbourhood still has a wood heater.

 

I did specify Hobart town. I think you are well away from the city.

I believe the Hobart ban came in when the power company introduced a special low tariff for electrical home heating.

[onetrack]

The W.A. Govt clamped down on wood fires over 20 years ago. Not a ban as such, just regular encouragement to get rid of them. Unsurprisingly, there are still plenty of houses in the Darling Range and the S.W. of W.A. still using wood for heating and hot water.

You can tell where these areas are on cold still mornings, the choking wood fire smoke hangs around in the valleys for hours, making them quite unpleasant to drive through.

 

We have electric RC A/Cons, best thing since sliced bread, we got rid of the previous oil heater in 2005. The oil heater was installed in the original (wood) fireplace by the previous owner, so that was a long time ago, we've been in this house for 35 years in early June.