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"Larry Jaques" wrote What burns me up (sorry) is when the tree huggers all use "natural" wood stoves, buring wood they so often defended. The result is that they are putting out at least 40 times the amount of CO2 than those of us who bought high-efficiency gas furnaces. Yes, but it does have so much of that Little House On The Prairie look and feel, doesn't it? Compost pile in the back. Little office with moon and star on the doors. Steve |
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On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:01 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote: What burns me up (sorry) is when the tree huggers all use "natural" wood stoves, buring wood they so often defended. The result is that they are putting out at least 40 times the amount of CO2 than those of us who bought high-efficiency gas furnaces. I've asked you a million times to not exaggerate. If you look only at the combustion products (which is far from the entire picture), and make a SWAG for burner efficiency, the CO2 emissions from heating with wood are perhaps 3-4 times that of gas. -- Ned Simmons |
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On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:50:16 -0500, the infamous Ned Simmons
scrawled the following: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:01 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote: What burns me up (sorry) is when the tree huggers all use "natural" wood stoves, buring wood they so often defended. The result is that they are putting out at least 40 times the amount of CO2 than those of us who bought high-efficiency gas furnaces. I've asked you a million times to not exaggerate. If you look only at the combustion products (which is far from the entire picture), and make a SWAG for burner efficiency, the CO2 emissions from heating with wood are perhaps 3-4 times that of gas. Cite real stats on that, please, Ned. Having stood/lived downwind from a fireplace/woodstove or two, I don't believe a word of it. Whole valleys are polluted by one single wood fire, fer chrissake. It's disgusting. I can't work outside when fireplaces are upwind. Catalytic stovepipe inserts and pellets help for woodstoves, but it's still lousy breathing downwind of any of those. You'd be hard pressed to notice combustion downwind of a natural gas furnace. Plus, everything I've read shows a 25-40x difference. If you have other stats, show me. -- Sex is Evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven. Gee, ain't religion GREAT? |
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:05:10 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:50:16 -0500, the infamous Ned Simmons scrawled the following: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:01 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote: What burns me up (sorry) is when the tree huggers all use "natural" wood stoves, buring wood they so often defended. The result is that they are putting out at least 40 times the amount of CO2 than those of us who bought high-efficiency gas furnaces. I've asked you a million times to not exaggerate. If you look only at the combustion products (which is far from the entire picture), and make a SWAG for burner efficiency, the CO2 emissions from heating with wood are perhaps 3-4 times that of gas. Cite real stats on that, please, Ned. This looks OK me: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/co...ls-d_1085.html At 100% efficiency burning wood releases 1.7x as much CO2 as natural gas. My SWAG is a gas furnace is probably at least twice as efficient as a wood stove, so 3-4x seems in the ballpark. Having stood/lived downwind from a fireplace/woodstove or two, I don't believe a word of it. Whole valleys are polluted by one single wood fire, fer chrissake. It's disgusting. I can't work outside when fireplaces are upwind. Catalytic stovepipe inserts and pellets help for woodstoves, but it's still lousy breathing downwind of any of those. You'd be hard pressed to notice combustion downwind of a natural gas furnace. Plus, everything I've read shows a 25-40x difference. If you have other stats, show me. Now you're talking about stuff other than CO2, and I agree. In fact, I'll bet 40x is way low for particulates when comparing wood and gas. Wood stoves aren't a problem in that regard here in coastal Maine -- stagnant air conditions are very rare, especially in winter, and population density is relatively low. But some larger towns have started to regulate outdoor wood boilers due to their tendency to smolder and smoke badly when they're damped down. And their short stacks makes the problem worse because all that smoke is vented close to the ground. I did design work about 30 years ago for a company that was building wood boilers based on a design by a University of Maine ME professor. The Hill boilers ran full tilt and stored the heat in a large volume of water. A normal hydronic heating system circulated the stored hot water between burns. Burning the wood hot and fast resulted in a very clean burn and pretty high efficiencies. -- Ned Simmons |
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:27:51 -0500, the infamous Ned Simmons
scrawled the following: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:05:10 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:50:16 -0500, the infamous Ned Simmons scrawled the following: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:01 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote: What burns me up (sorry) is when the tree huggers all use "natural" wood stoves, buring wood they so often defended. The result is that they are putting out at least 40 times the amount of CO2 than those of us who bought high-efficiency gas furnaces. I've asked you a million times to not exaggerate. If you look only at the combustion products (which is far from the entire picture), and make a SWAG for burner efficiency, the CO2 emissions from heating with wood are perhaps 3-4 times that of gas. Cite real stats on that, please, Ned. This looks OK me: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/co...ls-d_1085.html At 100% efficiency burning wood releases 1.7x as much CO2 as natural gas. My SWAG is a gas furnace is probably at least twice as efficient as a wood stove, so 3-4x seems in the ballpark. "At 100% efficiency" "SWAG" "seem in the ballpark" Yeah, you really put it to me, Ned. Those cites are gruesome! Garsh, I'm soooo embarrassed. Having stood/lived downwind from a fireplace/woodstove or two, I don't believe a word of it. Whole valleys are polluted by one single wood fire, fer chrissake. It's disgusting. I can't work outside when fireplaces are upwind. Catalytic stovepipe inserts and pellets help for woodstoves, but it's still lousy breathing downwind of any of those. You'd be hard pressed to notice combustion downwind of a natural gas furnace. Plus, everything I've read shows a 25-40x difference. If you have other stats, show me. Now you're talking about stuff other than CO2, and I agree. In fact, I'll bet 40x is way low for particulates when comparing wood and gas. Wood stoves aren't a problem in that regard here in coastal Maine -- stagnant air conditions are very rare, especially in winter, and population density is relatively low. But some larger towns have started to regulate outdoor wood boilers due to their tendency to smolder and smoke badly when they're damped down. And their short stacks makes the problem worse because all that smoke is vented close to the ground. Yeah, I suppose I should have said "total pollutants", not just CO2. I did design work about 30 years ago for a company that was building wood boilers based on a design by a University of Maine ME professor. The Hill boilers ran full tilt and stored the heat in a large volume of water. A normal hydronic heating system circulated the stored hot water between burns. Burning the wood hot and fast resulted in a very clean burn and pretty high efficiencies. How efficient would you say a wood burning stove or fireplace is, Ned, compared to a professionally run and serviced heating boiler system? DOH! -- Sex is Evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven. Gee, ain't religion GREAT? |
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Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:27:51 -0500, the infamous Ned Simmons scrawled the following: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:05:10 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:50:16 -0500, the infamous Ned Simmons scrawled the following: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:01 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote: What burns me up (sorry) is when the tree huggers all use "natural" wood stoves, buring wood they so often defended. The result is that they are putting out at least 40 times the amount of CO2 than those of us who bought high-efficiency gas furnaces. I've asked you a million times to not exaggerate. If you look only at the combustion products (which is far from the entire picture), and make a SWAG for burner efficiency, the CO2 emissions from heating with wood are perhaps 3-4 times that of gas. Cite real stats on that, please, Ned. This looks OK me: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/co...ls-d_1085.html At 100% efficiency burning wood releases 1.7x as much CO2 as natural gas. My SWAG is a gas furnace is probably at least twice as efficient as a wood stove, so 3-4x seems in the ballpark. "At 100% efficiency" "SWAG" "seem in the ballpark" Yeah, you really put it to me, Ned. Those cites are gruesome! Garsh, I'm soooo embarrassed. Having stood/lived downwind from a fireplace/woodstove or two, I don't believe a word of it. Whole valleys are polluted by one single wood fire, fer chrissake. It's disgusting. I can't work outside when fireplaces are upwind. Catalytic stovepipe inserts and pellets help for woodstoves, but it's still lousy breathing downwind of any of those. You'd be hard pressed to notice combustion downwind of a natural gas furnace. Plus, everything I've read shows a 25-40x difference. If you have other stats, show me. Now you're talking about stuff other than CO2, and I agree. In fact, I'll bet 40x is way low for particulates when comparing wood and gas. Wood stoves aren't a problem in that regard here in coastal Maine -- stagnant air conditions are very rare, especially in winter, and population density is relatively low. But some larger towns have started to regulate outdoor wood boilers due to their tendency to smolder and smoke badly when they're damped down. And their short stacks makes the problem worse because all that smoke is vented close to the ground. Yeah, I suppose I should have said "total pollutants", not just CO2. I did design work about 30 years ago for a company that was building wood boilers based on a design by a University of Maine ME professor. The Hill boilers ran full tilt and stored the heat in a large volume of water. A normal hydronic heating system circulated the stored hot water between burns. Burning the wood hot and fast resulted in a very clean burn and pretty high efficiencies. How efficient would you say a wood burning stove or fireplace is, Ned, compared to a professionally run and serviced heating boiler system? DOH! -- Sex is Evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven. Gee, ain't religion GREAT? We burned the Christmas tree tonight. I'm wild assed guessing 10 percent. |
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:29:39 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:27:51 -0500, the infamous Ned Simmons scrawled the following: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:05:10 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:50:16 -0500, the infamous Ned Simmons scrawled the following: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:01 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote: What burns me up (sorry) is when the tree huggers all use "natural" wood stoves, buring wood they so often defended. The result is that they are putting out at least 40 times the amount of CO2 than those of us who bought high-efficiency gas furnaces. I've asked you a million times to not exaggerate. If you look only at the combustion products (which is far from the entire picture), and make a SWAG for burner efficiency, the CO2 emissions from heating with wood are perhaps 3-4 times that of gas. Cite real stats on that, please, Ned. This looks OK me: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/co...ls-d_1085.html At 100% efficiency burning wood releases 1.7x as much CO2 as natural gas. My SWAG is a gas furnace is probably at least twice as efficient as a wood stove, so 3-4x seems in the ballpark. "At 100% efficiency" "SWAG" "seem in the ballpark" Yeah, you really put it to me, Ned. Those cites are gruesome! Garsh, I'm soooo embarrassed. Yeah, a factor of 10 error is pretty embarassing. g Having stood/lived downwind from a fireplace/woodstove or two, I don't believe a word of it. Whole valleys are polluted by one single wood fire, fer chrissake. It's disgusting. I can't work outside when fireplaces are upwind. Catalytic stovepipe inserts and pellets help for woodstoves, but it's still lousy breathing downwind of any of those. You'd be hard pressed to notice combustion downwind of a natural gas furnace. Plus, everything I've read shows a 25-40x difference. If you have other stats, show me. Now you're talking about stuff other than CO2, and I agree. In fact, I'll bet 40x is way low for particulates when comparing wood and gas. Wood stoves aren't a problem in that regard here in coastal Maine -- stagnant air conditions are very rare, especially in winter, and population density is relatively low. But some larger towns have started to regulate outdoor wood boilers due to their tendency to smolder and smoke badly when they're damped down. And their short stacks makes the problem worse because all that smoke is vented close to the ground. Yeah, I suppose I should have said "total pollutants", not just CO2. I did design work about 30 years ago for a company that was building wood boilers based on a design by a University of Maine ME professor. The Hill boilers ran full tilt and stored the heat in a large volume of water. A normal hydronic heating system circulated the stored hot water between burns. Burning the wood hot and fast resulted in a very clean burn and pretty high efficiencies. How efficient would you say a wood burning stove or fireplace is, Ned, compared to a professionally run and serviced heating boiler system? DOH! Catalytic stoves are rated as high as 80%, while modern gas furnaces are 90%+ efficient. But there are too many variables in woodstove design and operation to rely on a single number. So a 2 to 1 ratio is a conservative number, erring in favor of gas, and close enough to debunk a claim of 40x CO2 emissions from a woodstove. -- Ned Simmons |
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On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:38:47 -0500, the infamous Ned Simmons
scrawled the following: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:29:39 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote: How efficient would you say a wood burning stove or fireplace is, Ned, compared to a professionally run and serviced heating boiler system? DOH! Catalytic stoves are rated as high as 80%, while modern gas furnaces are 90%+ efficient. But there are too many variables in woodstove design and operation to rely on a single number. So a 2 to 1 ratio is a conservative number, erring in favor of gas, and close enough to debunk a claim of 40x CO2 emissions from a woodstove. Crikey! We'll just have to agree to completely and antithetically disagree on this one, too, Ned. Ciao! -- Sex is Evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven. Gee, ain't religion GREAT? |
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On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:17:56 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote: On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:38:47 -0500, the infamous Ned Simmons scrawled the following: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:29:39 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote: How efficient would you say a wood burning stove or fireplace is, Ned, compared to a professionally run and serviced heating boiler system? DOH! Catalytic stoves are rated as high as 80%, while modern gas furnaces are 90%+ efficient. But there are too many variables in woodstove design and operation to rely on a single number. So a 2 to 1 ratio is a conservative number, erring in favor of gas, and close enough to debunk a claim of 40x CO2 emissions from a woodstove. Crikey! We'll just have to agree to completely and antithetically disagree on this one, too, Ned. Ciao! I'm always willing to be disagreeable g, but I'm not sure what the disagreement is, unless you still think a woodstove emits 40x the CO2 a gas furnace does. -- Ned Simmons |
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On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:00:20 -0800 (PST), Jim Wilkins
wrote: On Jan 1, 10:38*am, Ned Simmons wrote: ... Catalytic stoves are rated as high as 80%, while modern gas furnaces are 90%+ efficient. But there are too many variables in woodstove design and operation to rely on a single number. So a 2 to 1 ratio is a conservative number, erring in favor of gas, and close enough to debunk a claim of 40x CO2 emissions from a woodstove. Ned Simmons Ole Wik's wood stove book that Lindsay once sold has a performance chart for the Jotul 118, the old one instead of the Black Bear they sell now. It gives the maximum efficiency point at 22,500 BTU/Hr with 3.1 Lbs/ hour of air-dried wood, 20% moisture content. This mentions the same data point, 76% efficient: http://hearth.com/econtent/index.php...ewthread/8911/ The chart apparently comes from Jotul's resource book "The Art of Heating with Wood", which I haven't found to download yet. I run my import copy hotter than that to eliminate visible smoke but I burn on average only about two cords a year, in cold NH. People with similar houses tell me they burn 5. We heat with a firebrick lined welded steel knockoff of a Jotul that I built 25 years ago. Two and a half cords takes care of our small 1200 sf house with lots of glass in ME. This stove is the 16" model. I built others as small as 12", and three behemoths that burned 4' sticks for the service buildings at a boatyard. -- Ned Simmons |
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On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:46:59 -0500, the infamous Ned Simmons
scrawled the following: On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:17:56 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote: On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:38:47 -0500, the infamous Ned Simmons scrawled the following: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:29:39 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote: How efficient would you say a wood burning stove or fireplace is, Ned, compared to a professionally run and serviced heating boiler system? DOH! Catalytic stoves are rated as high as 80%, while modern gas furnaces are 90%+ efficient. But there are too many variables in woodstove design and operation to rely on a single number. So a 2 to 1 ratio is a conservative number, erring in favor of gas, and close enough to debunk a claim of 40x CO2 emissions from a woodstove. Crikey! We'll just have to agree to completely and antithetically disagree on this one, too, Ned. Ciao! I'm always willing to be disagreeable g, but I'm not sure what the disagreement is, unless you still think a woodstove emits 40x the CO2 a gas furnace does. Right, it's a helluva lot more pollutants than 2x, as you state. In real life, not everyone runs catalytics (yet), either. -- Sex is Evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven. Gee, ain't religion GREAT? |
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