"Wood stove"

Wood stove / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Heating with electricity

Electric fireplaces: are they a good option for green homes?

...wood. I love direct source heat, I love a flickering orange light, but I don’t love the smoky smell that seems to be unavoidable even with airtight stoves. What I really love is the resiliency a wood stove provides in terms of being able to heat my home in a power outage. I built my home right after the 1998 ice storm...

Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

OFF GRID LIVING BLOG, PART 4: Off-grid heating systems - lessons learned from our off grid home

...wood pellet stove, see here, or to help with choosing a woodburning stove, see here, or even, for help in choosing the right type of firewood, see here. For the Nerds amongst us - there's also a really interesting page here, all about the Combustion process of wood. These Guides for Green Building brought you by the te...

Wood stove and biomass heat

Choosing the best wood-burning fireplace inserts or stoves for heat output & the environment

...wood stove be the main heat source or just supplementary? Is your house poorly, moderately or super-insulated? Since there is no way for a wood stove manufacturer to know how well-insulated or airtight your house is, square footage and BTU output numbers are valuable for finding out where a wood stove falls on the 's...

Wood stove and biomass heat

These wood pellet stoves for off-grid heating don't need electric to operate

...wood stoves produce less than un-certified stoves and pellet stoves produce less than EPA-certified wood stoves, they are closer to gas stoves in the emissions they produce. To read more about the wood combustion process and to understand how to burn firewood efficiently, see here. Fine particle emission compari...