[Market-farming] outdoor wood furnaces
Square Ft Gardening
mike_jordan at squareftgardening.com
Sun Dec 28 10:32:07 EST 2008
One of the things I like to do once I've got a handle on something costly
I'm going to purchase is to go to consumer reports on the internet to look
up what they have for info. You have to join but it's just $4.95 per month.
The cheap skate that I am, I join and stay on a month and quit. This is
cheaper than buying their magazine and you get to use their entire database
to search.
Hope this is helpful
P.S. - We always enjoyed heating with wood and used it for more than 10
years. Well that is until my wife burned the house down overfilling it. (I
only mean this as an aside and not an attempt to deter you. Wood is good)
Mike Jordan
ContinuousHarvest.com
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[mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Wyatt Jones
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 9:21 AM
To: market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] outdoor wood furnaces
I've researched Wood Boilers as I was and am still thinking about getting
one. One thing to be aware of is that the EPA passed new emissions
regulations supposed to take effect in 2010. Whether they do or not in 2010
given the economy and energy problems we are having these days is somewhat
in question but thats the story as I understand it at present. The Epa has
a website listing all the approved models, with Central Boiler and Greenwood
Technologies very promonent there. Seems most the ones that passed are
gasification units, which are also much more efficient, need cleaning less
often because the fuel is burned completly to white ash and more expensive.
The Central Boiler website show a lot of options and they have a lot of
options, like greenhose heat exchangers of different sizes. Even if the new
regulations go into effect I imagine the older, already installed, units
will be granfathered in, depending on location, but maybe just for a grace
period. As I mentioned I'm thinking about it but a decent gasification unit
costs almost $10,000 plus you need a cement pad, plumbing, electricity run
out to it, heat exchangers etc, not a cheap proposition in the short run.
For now I decided to buy a tractor instead. If you don't care about a big
polluting monster in your back yard there are cheaper units but I think its
risky as there is no gaurantee they won't be prohibited altogether sometime
in the near future.
Here is a link to the EPA site listing Furnaces and their emmisions. It
also has links to the Company sites so you can look them over most closely.
http://www.epa.gov/woodheaters/models.htm
Wyatt
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