Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Message: 39 >Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:44:48 +0200 >From: "simon jessurun" <simon.apekop@gmail.com> >Subject: [Leica] OT wood pellets for fuel >To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> >Message-ID: > <23a0a61f0807261344y3eb76b94s36e506cd0a0f537d@mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >A friend of mine who lives in France just installed wood pellet burning >central heating. >The arguments for the system seem sound. >Does anyone here have experience with such a system? >simon Simon: I've got a wood pellet stove in the family room in our house. The pellets are sawdust that they compress into pellets that would otherwise be burned as waste or discarded so it helps the environment in that regard. The stove has an auger in it that feeds the pellets into an area that burns them. Depending on how much air you admit and the rate at which you rotate the auger, that determines how much heat the stove generates. I believe our stove is capable of 100,000 BTU/hr and is large enough to warm the first floor of our house, about 1500 sq feet nicely. Even on the coldest of days, we can maintain approximately 75F on the whole first floor. About the only drawback is that you need to feed it pellets, about 40 lbs per day and it's a bit dustier than the natural gas heat that is our primary source of heat in the house. You also have to remove the ashes around once a week. The pellets are a little less expensive than gas and much less expensive than electricity where we live in NW PA, USA. Let me know if you need any other information. It's a pretty neat principle and the stoves can be outfitted to burn corn and other things besides wood pellets.