Pellet stoves
Bob Morris @ Jan 7th 2007 00:14 - Category: Renewable energy
We put in a pellet stove earlier this year. It’s working great. It’s heating a 5,000 sf home for $7 a day to 70 degrees. Sorry about the carbon, but the cost reduction and the ability to diversify our energy sources more than outweighs it.
Pellet stoves look a bit like wood-burning stoves but actually are quite high-tech and extremely efficient, with little smoke. The pellets are made from biomass leftovers of wheat, corn, and wood processing and are widely available from pellet mills. The stoves have electric fans to draw in air, which is then heated and blown back out. They are thermostatically controlled, with the pellets being fed in as needed from the hopper. You can even fit them in where existing fireplaces are.
Hometips explains how they work.
Among the many vendors are PelletStove.com and JamestownPelletStove.com.
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Hayden Branston on 06 Feb 2007 at 3:26 pm #
I agree with John above, You can find other Information, vendors here as well.
Pellet stove Information
what are they , how do they work and some useful articles and resources on Pellet Stove heating
They seem to be a great alternative to traditional wood bunring stoves
mike nees on 12 Feb 2007 at 8:20 pm #
I have been researching stoves. If you have any advice please let me know. Where have you been purchasing the pellets? I appreciate any advice. Thanks Mike