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Originally Posted by freebeard
All-electric living make me apprehensive. I'd be fine with a two gallon [size} rocket-stove. It could hang from the 4" stove pipe that used to service a gas furnace.
Rocket stoves have a secondary combustion 'afterburner' that consumes the smoke. What do your bureaucrats think of that?
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Luckily our home was built in the 40s with a coal furnace. In the 50s they added a forced air oil burning furnace. A cool looking art decor styled one from "AC Delco". That furnace was "converted" to natural gas by running a single electric valved gas line into the burn chamber with an ignitor on the tip. That scared the crap out of me so we replaced it with a common Goodman Janitorial 80% efficent gas furnace when we moved in 20 years ago. The hot water and stove remained electric. The furnace still requires electricity to run but not more than a small generator could provide. We also can burn the fireplace if we lose all power and even if there was an inversion that would be legal as it would be the only source of heat at that point.