Solid Biofuel: Wood Pellet & Cordwood Stoves

Wood Pellet BoilersWhat it is:

Not to be confused with kitchen stoves, these stoves are found in the every day living spaces of homes such as a family room.

Stoves provide heat right to the room where they stand, so they are best at heating up one room, while leaving other rooms in a home colder.

As such, they are usually used as supplemental heat to a whole-building solution such as a boiler or furnace. There are many types of solid biofuel stoves. They’re typically built to fire one specific type of fuel, such as wood, wood pellets, briquettes or peat.

Past, present, future:

Solid biofuel stoves are essentially today’s version of the old wood burning stove of years past. Today’s stoves burn a lot cleaner and are more efficient than was the case 20 years ago.

Advantages:

  • Low investment cost.
  • Inexpensive to operate.
  • Nice flame to look at.
  • Fuel price and availability not exposed to geopolitical risk. Fuel is sourced here in the US.

Disadvantages:

  • Take up otherwise usable floor space.
  • Surface of stove gets hot, so inappropriate with small children around.
  • Require frequent filling.
  • Stoves use oxygen from the room, so rooms can get stuffy if not ventilated.
  • Unable to heat whole house.

Ecological Impacts:

No major impacts. CO2 neutral.

Special comments:

There are many stove manufacturers and dealers around the country. Logwood and bagged wood pellets are readily available in most areas.

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"Although trees and other forms of biomass can act as carbon sinks, at maturity (or at their optimum growth rate) they must be used as a source of fuel (or as long-lived timber products). Otherwise, the many years of sequestering the carbon will simply be lost as they decay and/or burn naturally."

 

- David O. Hall