A timber frame cabin memoir
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ponytug
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Sorry for not posting it originally. My bad!
I believe it was originally in a Washington Post article, based on this link,
but I found it here;
Visualizing Home Heating Sources
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking the type of fuel used to heat homes in the United States. One visualization shows the top fuel used in each U.S. county, with electricity appearing as yellow, natural gas appearing as purple, propane appearing as blue, oil appearing
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All the best,
Peter
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No worries, just interested on zooming in more. Plus I still find it very odd that there are whole counties where wood is the actual PRIMARY source of heat in this year. That made me a bit suspicious, I'll admit. Especially in parts of Cali (though rural ones) given that state's proclivity to stop anything sensible. Unfortunately the actual link doesn't allow zooming into county level to see what is what in detail.
ponytug
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Yes, you would think that there would be a zoomable map somewhere, wouldn't you?
Well, on the anecdotal side, locally, I can attest that among the friends I have in the forested areas, wood heating is fairly common, much more so than your neck of the woods. That's partly that homes here are pretty leaky, so a fireplace or an old stove gets lots of makeup air, unlike a well built home in Wisconsin, older and new ones. Then again the winters here are a lot milder, so even when it snows, it isn't -20F here for a couple of weeks.
I know that wood burning is discouraged/banned around Lake Tahoe, due to the geography, and in this area as well (Spare the air days here, and no new fireplaces). Last time I checked, the primary contributor to the local smog was actually restaurants with grills, both gas and wood fired, as they are permitted to vent it all up the chimney/vent. It is kind of a third rail in the local air quality, as nobody has any brilliant ideas of how to clean the smoke, dispose of the trapped smoke particles which are by definition hazardous, and do so at a price restaurants could afford. Rock and a hard place.
All the best,
Peter
