It is heated by
an efficient wood burning stove and by off peak electrical central heating.
High energy
efficient wood burning fireplace with recycled wood paneling and metal wall detail
Not exact matches
Both local and international environmental and public health groups have tried to address this problem by bringing more
efficient stoves into the countryside, which
burn only half as much
wood and are better at funneling the resulting smoke outside.
And similarly he has also been involved in developing a new kind of little cook stove that also greatly cuts the emissions that come off these sort of
wood burning cook stoves and actually makes these stoves more
efficient --[they] heat up food faster.
The project is testing three approaches:
wood -
burning stoves that are more
efficient and thus leave less black - carbon residue; stoves that
burn natural gas produced from waste; and solar cookers.
But in other places, propane or other fossil fuels, or simply a more
efficient stove for
burning wood, may be the right choice.
There is a more
efficient way of
burning wood.
That means less smoke which equals smaller carbon footprint than just
burning wood in a fireplace which is like 10 %
efficient according to sierraclub.org.
And just as solar ovens and
efficient stoves can cut into the pollution and costs (monetary, time, and otherwise) of
burning wood, more modern lighting options can carve into the pollution and costs of, for example, using kerosene for lighting.
A clean and
efficient burn for these would assume the
wood was of the right type and was well seasoned.
Covering rocket mass heaters, rocket stoves, hot water and a collection of techniques to make
wood burning stoves about ten times more
efficient.
The news gets worse: both Booth and Birdsey explained that
wood burning is not nearly as
efficient in generating energy as coal
burning.
And if we are going to
burn wood (such as I do, with a pellet stove), we need to make sure it is as
efficient as possible.
There are now a few very
efficient wood boilers that
burn firewood at very high temperatures and store the heat in hot water tanks for homes with hydronic heat distribution systems.
Converting
efficient coal -
burning power stations into ludicrously inefficient,
wood -
burning power stations (requiring the destruction of vast amounts of American woodland) isn't going to do that, either.
Burning wood for heat, cooking, and manufacturing wasn't very
efficient:
Some people have installed very
efficient Scandinavian - style
wood burning stoves in their tiny houses, but we do not install them as they do not meet RVIA standards.
Glass doors can be installed on a
wood -
burning fireplace to make it more energy
efficient.
In order to create a better, brighter basement, the
wood -
burning stove gave way to an
efficient gas fireplace.