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Things To Consider Before You Install A Wood Burning Stove
Woody biomass fuel suitable for use in most wood stoves is typically wood pellets, wood chips and wood logs. Many modern wood burning stoves are described as "dual-fire" meaning that they are capable of being run by any of these fuels (wood pellets are similar in size and appearance to the sort of thing people feed pet rabbits but made from highly compressed sawdust). ... Why Install A Wood Stove?
As a "Green Technology" a wood heating system perfectly blends both tradition and cutting edge environmental thinking.
In many cases, the wood used to fuel a wood burner is recycled waste material anyway (wood chips and wood pellets, which are manufactured from compressed sawdust). But even when not recycled, trees are still an abundant resource on the planet and are endlessly renewable - plant a new tree for each one cut down and the sun and CO2 will do the rest.
In fact, trees are arguably the ultimate in solar power since they not only store the sun's energy in a convenient and easy to use form that can be stored until ... How to Select a Type and Make of Wood Burning Stove
Now for the vexed question of fuel. A multi fuel stove can, as the name implies, burn a variety of combustible materials such as logs, wood pellets, peat and coal. A stove that is described as wood or log burning is designed to only burn wood. In terms of layout, multi fuel burners are distinguished by having a metal grate and removable ash pan. With wood burners, the fuel sits on a bed of existing ash (which you should periodically reduce but not ... The Pros and Cons of Installing A Wood Burning Stove
Which is where wood burning comes in; because although you are indeed releasing carbon into the atmosphere when you burn logs or wood pellets, this forms part of a more or less balanced carbon cycle.
The carbon released by a wood burner was taken from the atmosphere in the first place by the tree that provided the wood - that's how trees make themselves; carbon dioxide plus solar energy ... Wood Burners Past And Present
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Biomass fuel is essentially any type of renewable biological material that combusts well. It obviously has the desirable characteristic that being renewable implies a life cycle, and hence a period of growth which typically ensures it is self-balancing as regards carbon output. The most commonly used biofuels are of course logs, wood pellets and other forms of reclaimed wood, but you can even burn husks from cereal crops and nuts (so long as your particular burner is capable of accepting it).
But before we go much further, let's rewind ... 
