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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Deniers are keeping energy costs from exploding and reduce the human misery index.
I don't see a lot of so called believers collecting and using their own fire wood for heat. Seems like nearly all of them use electricity, natural gas or fuel oil heating.
I say theres lots of reasons to nuke Boston from orbit.
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One 'believer' I know uses in-state, Pine beetle-kill wood pellets, in an air-tight, draft-free, blue-flame, auger-fed pellet stove.
Dedicated forced-air, outside combustion air is ducted into the unit, and pre-conditioned within a recuperator heat-exchanger in the exhaust stack.
It has a fairly high thermal efficiency, as wood burners go.
The Pyrex door allows for some nice mood lighting.
The house itself is super-insulated and passive solar.
If it's really wicked cold and cloudy, there's propane backup.
The wood would pose a wildfire fuel threat otherwise.