Sounds like the old pot style oil heater. I've heard those are
dangerous.

Wall heaters (propane fuel) might not need electric. Harbor
Freight has some vented or not-vented wall heaters that use LP,
but not electric.

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"Dean Hoffman" wrote in message
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:
: What type of heater that does not need power?
:
: My parents had a Siegler stove in the living room of
their old
: farmhouse. It burned kerosene. No fan. I think one just
threw a bit
: of wadded up newspaper in the bottom to light it.
: I had a natural gas floor furnace in one house. No fan.
The
: thermostat ran off a thermocoupler type device, I think. It
looked
: like this: http://tinyurl.com/2zeweo
:
: Dean
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