Comments on: Heating with wood – economic considerations http://sustainable.cchrc-research.org/2008/08/heating-with-wood-economic-considerations/ Are you Sustain Able? Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:06:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Frank Allen http://sustainable.cchrc-research.org/2008/08/heating-with-wood-economic-considerations/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Frank Allen Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:02:04 +0000 http://sustainable.cchrc-research.org/?p=144#comment-101 Using this logic, most people are limiting their choice with an oil furnace to oil, and a gas furnace to gas. Can you imagine if everyone went to buy a 'woodlot', cut their own wood, transported it home, and burned it in the Winter. Oh wait, that's exactly what people used to do, isn't it. And some people are qualified to do it, some have the woodlot already, some have a chainsaw, and know how to use it, and some already have an approved chimney. Instead of 500 gallons of oil, I insulated a bit, and have managed three Winters using a pellet stove, and burned $800 dollars of pellets each year, with my house staying at 72 degrees, 24 hours a day, all Winter. I'm sort f enjoying my limited feeling ! Using this logic, most people are limiting their choice with an oil furnace to oil, and a gas furnace to gas.

Can you imagine if everyone went to buy a ‘woodlot’, cut their own wood, transported it home, and burned it in the Winter.

Oh wait, that’s exactly what people used to do, isn’t it. And some people are qualified to do it, some have the woodlot already, some have a chainsaw, and know how to use it, and some already have an approved chimney.

Instead of 500 gallons of oil, I insulated a bit, and have managed three Winters using a pellet stove, and burned $800 dollars of pellets each year, with my house staying at 72 degrees, 24 hours a day, all Winter. I’m sort f enjoying my limited feeling !

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