20. Burning Wood

Last time, I talked about tobacco and the huge number of Germans that loves smoking it for my greatest pleasure. I also mentioned the pollution caused by gas engines. And you can enjoy that all year round, yay!

Today, let's talk about wood, and more precisely burning wood to heat your house.
In Germany, even in cities, many people still use wood burning stoves, and I think since the energy crisis, the number increased.

I am not entering this debate about nuclear energy, but the one thing I can say is that in France or other countries using nuclear power to produce electricity made it affordable to everyone, meaning that low income households can enjoy heating at a reasonable price.
However, in Germany, this is not the case and affordable heating (and surely in a decade affordable cooling) does not really exist.
For instance, in my building, the heating costs 100€ per month and it has been increased considerably due to the bio gas price going up (a lot). Because it is central floor heating, it is not energy efficient at all. Add maybe 80€/month of electricity bill...

Anyway, for many reasons, Germans like their wood burning stoves.
It is also considered as "green" as it comes for natural source. However, the emission from the stoves are not healthy at all.

In a sunny lovely Winter day, if you want to enjoy a refreshing stroll outside, then you have to put up with the horrid smell of burned wood.