Comments on: Woodstoves and Pellet Stoves

By: wood stove

wood stove — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:50:35 +0000

interesting article for wood and pellet stoves. thanks for sharing/ please visit http://www.astove.co.uk

By: Abdel Irada

Abdel Irada — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:58:45 +0000

I would like to thank M. Lane for his contribution, for of all the contents of this page — article and comments alike — only it offers completely accurate information.

From the EPA to the various local and regional air quality management districts to multiple independent studies conducted for the public benefit, every objective examiner has concluded that residential wood combustion, at best, remains harmful to both the user and neighbors, and is in no sense carbon-neutral.

Meanwhile, my family, living in a neighborhood where heavy and continuous wood-burning is prevalent, can attest through much misery that there are many nights when we all wish we could only somehow do without breathing. There is simply no escaping the smoke; it surrounds our home, and since our home is not airtight, it also enters. On some winter nights, we can see the smoke inside our house. And when it does, we all suffer: I have been known to cough so hard from it as to eject vomitus, and my daughter has all but lost her sense of smell to chronic olfactory fatigue.

This page disappoints me. I would have expected better from the Sierra Club than this morally and intellectually vacuous parroting of the hearth industry’s long-refuted talking points. Human health and lives are at stake, and those matter more than big business’ big profits.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:34:07 +0000

I’m from Italy and we use 99% wood pellet boilers. The questione is why in the states the 99% (who buys a pellet stove) don’t buy the boilers??????????

By: theoharis

theoharis — Thu, 12 May 2011 17:54:50 +0000

interesting article for wood and pellet stoves
http://www.businessdevelopment.gr/en/index.html

By: Jolin

Jolin — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:04:20 +0000

Pellet fuels, previously, is much environmental than classic fuels. Therefore, if you want to lower the greenhouse effect you have to cut down bringing out Carbon dioxide. The 20 percent carbon savings are significantly exceeded. How might it occur? Burning the pellets in a specially designed oven, merely the Carbon dioxide emitted, which has been noted in the growing period of trees. Which makes these pellets are CO2 neutral. This procedure is referred to as carbon cycle. The burning of non-renewable fuels, however, co2 is revealed, which has been taken for many years and co2 has long been been kept on a large scale. Greater combustion of non-renewable fuels, the stronger of greenhouse effect occurs.

By: Jason Webb

Jason Webb — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:03:05 +0000

It is important to use a properly sized appliance for the space to be heated Regards/- Jason Webb

By: Marilyn Taylor

Marilyn Taylor — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:41:18 +0000

I am looking for a fireplace insert that will not bankrupt me, but get that smoke out of the air and be a cosy looking fire. Any one out there have a suggestion. We live in San Antonio, and so don’t use the fireplace except maybe 10 times a year.
Thanks alot for your help!

By: Charles Keller

Charles Keller — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:14:33 +0000

I just read the comments about the differnt catalytic systems for wood stoves. I have to strongly disagree. I reluctanly used the honeycomb combustors for years in my Buck Model 20. I love the stove but hated the combustors. They would literally disintegrate in a few months. I contacted Buck Stove and they recommended that I try the combustors from Clear Skies Unlimited. Thank the good Lord for these combustors. I have had one in my stove for almost two years and it works perfectly. I wish to also thank the good people at Buck Stove for the tip.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:39:46 +0000

I am still relatively new to wood stoves ( using one for 2 years) compared to some experienced folks on here but I hear a lot about pollution and air quality damage. I started using wood stoves with few rules. 1- Never cut live wood, only use dead wood.
2-buying wood is the last option. always try to cut, split and stash it by yourself.
3- I have tried to add a community / social element to this by inviting my wood stove using friends to go with me to cut and haul firewood.
I use a EPA certified c-converter stove I know all stoves are polluting but electricity is nowhere close to clean.

By: Wayne Robey

Wayne Robey — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:29:48 +0000

All catalytic burners are not the same. Caution below.
I purchased a used stove several years ago with what seemed to be a good catalytic burner (often called a catalytic combustor) 6″ dia ceramic 3″ thick with 4 partitions/inch. I installed it with 3′ vertical followed by 20′ horizontal 8″ dia stove pipe feeding a brick chimney about 30′ to the top. Last year the catalyst was nearly inactive and this year I replaced it with one made from alumina foam fiber 1″ thick coated with catalyst. It is cheap and advertised by Clear Skies Unlimited as being EPA approved. I try to burn wood without making a lot of smoke and even without the catalytic burner, it is hard for me to see any smoke even with a clear blue sky and no wind and there is little creosote buildup in the chimney. When the original catalyst was in good condition the viewport directly above the catalyst would stay clean so I could easily see the catalyst. I added a inconel sheathed type K thermocouple directly above the catalyst to help maintain proper temperature. With the Clear Skies catalyst and a temperature above 300 degrees C, the viewport becomes too coated with soot to see through in 90 minutes. I tried stacking two units for a 2″ effective thickness and the time to a impossible to see through view port is doubled. (I shine a strong light though one part and look through a shaded part) The deposit is a find carbon with little or no binder. This catalytic burner is to be avoided.