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  Speaking of expensive Gasoline, does anyone here heat their house with wood?
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Posted 2/5/2012 7:00 pm
House was built with a wood-burning fireplace in the family room. Had it re-fitted with a gas-burning insert with forced-air ventilation.

Cleaner, easier and shitload more energy-efficient than a wood-burner.

Yes, before you OCD fucks blow another vein in your forehead furiously typing a response - I realize that a wood-burning fireplace is different than a wood-stove.



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Poopin Fresh
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Posted 2/5/2012 7:04 pm
. said:Gas log fireplaces annoy the hell out of me. It's not really a fire if you can start it with a light switch.



When I was a kid we had a gas burner in our huge open-hearth fireplace. We used it as a log-starter, and it was perfect for that. Huge fireplace, with a cooking hearth, complete with large cast-iron pot hanging from a swinging wrought-iron arm. Could heat most of a two-story, six-bedroom home.



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Posted 2/5/2012 7:11 pm
Poopin Fresh said:
. said:Gas log fireplaces annoy the hell out of me. It's not really a fire if you can start it with a light switch.



When I was a kid we had a gas burner in our huge open-hearth fireplace. We used it as a log-starter, and it was perfect for that. Huge fireplace, with a cooking hearth, complete with large cast-iron pot hanging from a swinging wrought-iron arm. Could heat most of a two-story, six-bedroom home.



I'm sure "as a kid" it seemed like a single open-hearth fireplace could heat "a two-story six-bedroom home" - in much the same way that "as a kid" it seemed like Santa Clause always brought just what you wanted for Christmas.



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Posted 2/5/2012 7:11 pm
. said:A Rocket Stove will use a lot less wood. Are you venting the outflow through a thermal mass?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqKvsUnUt04&feature=related

I have one for my house and one for one of my greenhouses. They work great. Another greenhouse uses methane from a biomass dump.



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