Articles Related to: Biomass

Can You Benefit From Using A Log Burner In A City?

Can You Benefit From Using A Log Burner In A City? For example eliminating hideously wasteful incandescent light bulbs by switching to LED light bulbs (halogen lamps in particular are terribly costly to run and easily replaced by LED spotlights). Or indeed generate your own electricity or switch to using biomass heating. biomass what? Well, yes, apologies for that but it seems that's the trendy new term for what is otherwise known as a wood burning stove (or log burner, or wood burning boiler or any other ...

Things To Consider Before You Install A Wood Burning Stove

Things To Consider Before You Install A Wood Burning Stove Also, the latest log burning stoves are very clean and easy to use and maintain. There are various pros and cons involved with installing wood burning stoves and some of the crucial issues to consider for any biomass system are noted below. Before we go any further though, a quick word about terminology. Like any subject, the technology of wood burning has it's own jargon that acts as useful shorthand for professionals and mostly baffles everyone else. Unusually though, this terminological bamboozlement starts with the ...

How to Select a Type and Make of Wood Burning Stove

How to Select a Type and Make of Wood Burning Stove Wood pellet burners are gaining popularity due to their ease of use and automation, but also because they are highly efficient and ecologically sound, recycling otherwise waste products from an already renewable fuel source - wood. They also attract grants for installation and other incentives and like all other types of wood biomass, wood pellet are specifically exempt from the Climate Change Levy (a tax on energy use aimed at limiting carbon dioxide pollution). Each of these basic ...

The Pros and Cons of Installing A Wood Burning Stove

The Pros and Cons of Installing A Wood Burning Stove The second biggest reason that many people are installing wood burning stoves and biomass boilers is that wood burners are highly efficient and much cheaper to run than conventional gas, oil or electric heating systems; we're talking well over three times cheaper in most cases, and quite a bit more in some situations. At present, there are few more easy ways to save money than to switch to wood burning as a domestic heating solution, but before you rush out ...