What Kind of Energy Should Fuel Household Cooking Appliances Around The World?
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How Does Wood Burning Affect Climate Change?
There are basically two climate impacts that come from using wood in this way. One comes from the photosynthesis process itself, when trees grow they fix CO2. The other path is when you burn wood, and I explained earlier in these small scale household devices, it's really hard to burn completely. So not only are you leaving some CO2 in the atmosphere, because you're not allowing the trees to fully recover,. You're also having a second stream of these other non CO2 greenhouse gases. And maybe the most critical one there isn't a gas at all. It's an aerosol fine particle and that's black carbon that comes off when you can't burn fuels completely. And that
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