{"id":692509,"date":"2010-03-16T06:40:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T10:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2262"},"modified":"2010-03-16T06:54:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T10:54:14","slug":"sierra-club-weighs-in-on-electric-vs-wood-for-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/692509","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Club Weighs in on Electric vs. Wood for Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"81\" border=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"180\" vspace=\"3\" title=\"sierra club logo\" alt=\"sierra club logo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sierraclub.org\/rootimages\/logos\/logo-green.gif?resize=180%2C81\" \/>Which is less carbon intensive:&nbsp; electic heat or wood stovfe heat?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The Sierra Club&#8217;s &quot;Hey Mr. Green&quot; tells us &#8230;it depends on the quality \/ newness of your wood stove and where the pollution ends up &#8212; at a power plant or in your neighborhood.&nbsp; No easy answers but some good info.<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; carbon footprint depends on the source of your electric power and the quality of your wood burner. &#8230; power &#8230; generated from coal or other fossil fuels &#8230; footprint might be bigger than if you&#8217;re burning wood in a new, efficient, EPA-approved firebox or stove. &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; wood burner &#8230; releases a lot more other pollutants into the air &#8230; releases them right where you and your neighbors breathe &#8230; wood &#8230; emits 250 times as much global-warming methane as burning coal in a power plant.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Via:<\/strong>&nbsp; Sierra Club&nbsp; <a title=\"Sierra Club\"  href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/9RCasf\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is less carbon intensive:&nbsp; electic heat or wood stovfe heat?&nbsp; The Sierra Club&#8217;s &quot;Hey Mr. Green&quot; tells us &#8230;it depends on the quality \/ newness of your wood stove and where the pollution ends up &#8212; at a power plant or in your neighborhood.&nbsp; No easy answers but some good info. &quot; &#8230; carbon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":728,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2U9v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/728"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}