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[neshura <neshura@gmail.com>]

Besides the expensive pellets and the complicated machinery, the
blower is loud enough to make conversation difficult at best. Pellet
stoves work best when relegated to a back room; for simple heating,
they are fine, but if you want to heat your home and have a hearth, a
warm place where friends and family gather to stamp off the chill and
exchange stories and maybe sit and watch a movie together, avoid
stoves with blowers.

I believe Real Goods and other similar stores sell a little
thermoelectric fan that sits directly on the stove and circulates air
through the room, but I don't know what the decibel level would be, or
I'd be tempted to get one (it's clever but costly, about $100).

On 2/9/06, John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net> wrote:
> Aloha,
>
>  > pellet stoves are one way long term
>
> Pellet stoves require electricity to run the pellet delivery system and
> blower however.
> The pellets are a manufactured 'side product' of the 'wood products'
> industry so are subject to the ups and downs of that biz.  So far
> they're a surplus being put to use instead of 'wasted'.
>
> In making a solution out of the problem - there's no need for the pellet
> delivery system to use electricity.
> A spring powered system (e.g. hand wound, like the FreePlay radios etc.)
> is completely possible, for example, and I reckon it could be designed
> to not need very frequent winding... :-)
> Or a gravity powered system, like cuckoo clocks and similar.
>
> It's still a lot more moving parts and fabrication than a regular wood
> stove or masonry/mass heater though.
>
> I wonder what the comparative efficiencies are...
>
> cheers,
> John S.
>
>
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