Comments on: Wood-Pellet Stoves: Efficient Heat

By: OffGrid

OffGrid — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:21:27 +0000

I have been hearing more and more about wood pellet shortages. Has anyone run into problems with this?

By: Gina-Marie Cheeseman

Gina-Marie Cheeseman — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:11:56 +0000

If you already have a wood stove, the freestanding variety, you can add a basket to it and burn the wood pellets in it. In the San Joaquin Valley of California where I live there are days when you can’t burn wood in the winter because of pollution, so it would make sense to use the wood pellets on those days.

By: bill

bill — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:48:48 +0000

can i buy a machine to make the pellets i have lots of sawdust

By: Kin

Kin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:21:49 +0000

lol. Walter that’s genius. i’ve had a rabbit before, I wish they were.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:11:16 +0000

CO2=Global Warming is bullshit :) trees and plants would grow faster if it was 4 times higher than now(at around 1200ppm). Thus more trees to burn in pellet-stoves. And who cares if there are any humans around then anyway, the world didn’t care 130000 years ago when there was only about 2000-3000 at some estimates us here walking.

By: ASteve

ASteve — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:50:48 +0000

@Draakan: The difference is the cumulative effect of small amounts of CO2 being stored away over the course of millions of years, then being released almost immediately (the industrial revolution, and accompanying fossil fuel use, didn’t happen in earnest until little over 100 years ago). The cumulative effect is devestating.

By: Draakan

Draakan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:36:01 +0000

Well to be completely frank if you look at burning wood as climate friendly because it was waste CO2 that was going to end there anyway, oil is the same just stored differently and for a long period of time.

By: Gabe Cote

Gabe Cote — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:36:02 +0000

The EasyFire Pellet Stoves from Sierra Products, Inc. http://www.sierraproductsinc.net are battery back-up with standard 12 Volt DC battery that is kept charged. The stove will run for three days on the 12V Battery. When the AC power is restored the EasyFire stove will automatically recharge the battery.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:35:26 +0000

Climate friendly — wood is a bio fuel, with CO2 originating in the atmosphere. The sawdust would eventually decompose to CO2 or methane in any case.

By: Bob Morris

Bob Morris — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:44:02 +0000

People who own one tell me they do have a couple of drawbacks. 1) they need extensive and regular cleaning. 2) they need electricity to run (so no help in a blackout.)