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that greyish blue haze around mountains is smog not fog. sometimes it is NOx from trees but most of times is from stoves

"they both talked my ear off about their experiences." stockholm syndrome . so they talked how good their stoves are. or they talked about how bad their houses are that they need to spend any amount of time on stove, cleaning, dust, moving wood,... if you have bad "circumstances" then any betterment in that circumstances is welcomed. but you can change circumstances altogether and not have to improve on lessening of abuse. you can live without abuse.

you burn to add energy into your house. better built house loses less energy so you need to add less energy. so you need less wood.

if im to put two logs into "stove", my house is 120 f in half an hour. if i had stove.

U/R value of materials

also someone will inhale your smoke, 100% all the time. their smoke. everyone smokes everyones smoke.

smoke does not go upwards towards mars. it goes little bit up then it will fall to ground and lurks 3-5 feet about ground and you inhale it. and im not even talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_(meteorology)