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Posted by Kevin in Ohio on Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 19:15:47 :
In Reply to: Re: OT need help on a hot water system posted by Allen in CT on Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 18:36:16 :
They are trying in Ohio as well. These are their latest proposals:
1 Must be 200 ft from ANY property line
2 "Visible emissions" for no more than 6 minutes at a time.
3 No coal
4 Stack oulet must be 5 ft higher than ANY building within 150 feet.
5 No new stoves sold and any existing must meet the above rules. Any violations and stove MUST be removed from the premises.
I can understand not having them in towns and I think this is where the problems arose. 200 ft is excessive. Mine barely complys with that and my nearest downwind neighbor is a 1/2 mile away.
Visible emissions? Meaning smoke? Can of worms there.
Stack rule is obsurd. I have barns around within that length and that high of a stack would be a hazard in itself.
All this to me is just another thing to make Americans LESS self reliant and tied into the "system", Keep the sheep in the flock I guess. You'd think they'd have better things to do but some want to justify their position. The thing people wont tell you about carbon emissions is that rotting wood gives off just about as much as burning it does so in a sense is IS a cleaner source of energy than pumping oil out of the earth and burning it on the surface. Then again, you can collect taxes off of that and that is the bottom line.