how do high efficiency wood burning stoves work?

Answer 1

By keeping the wood box at one temperature you get more BTU's out of your wood, they use auto dampers and inducer fans to keep the fire steady.
Why do people answer questions on yahoo with answers that don't even pertain to a question asked? I think wood is a nice heat, I don't burn wood in my home just because I had the pleasure of working my butt of out in the woods when I was a kid so we could heat our house.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

High efficiency EPA approved stoves have either a catalytic converter that "burns" the smoke, or a firebox design with a well insulated primary chamber and a secondary combustion area that consumes the smoke. A properly operating modern wood stove will show no visible smoke once the fire gets going. Even the startup smoke can be minimized by using the "top down" method of starting the fire.

By using only well seasoned wood in an EPA approved wood stove, the environmental impact of wood heat becomes less than that of burning fossil fuels, as wood harvested in a sustainable manner will not increase the CO^2 content of the air. If you did not burn that wood, but left it to rot on the forest floor, the rotting process would give off the same amount of CO^2 that burning does.

Answer 4

By using baffles, they transfer more of the heat into the room rather than up the chimney. They work great.

I've burned wood all my life, I have never had smoke or particles in the house. There is very little pollution to the planet by properly burning wood. Wood is the ultimate renewable resource. And cutting and splitting wood is very good exercise for remaining healthy. The environmental weirdos would complain about being hung with a new rope.

People who burn food (corn) in their stoves and cars are immoral. That is plain sick.

Answer 5

Been using wood all my adult life with none of the negative affects mentioned above. I'm a Southern Boy. I burn wood to keep my family warm, Chainsaws and wood splitters are the norm for a Southern Boy. Good luck with the stove and enjoy the unique heat that your stove will produce.

Answer 6

my stove is a Vermont castings Dutch west, and it is about 76% efficient.it seals up well, and uses a catylitic converter in it to grow very hot and burn the smoke "again". this gets the most heat from the wood and burns clean.once the stove gets up to temperature, there isn't much visible smoke coming out of the chiminey.

Answer 7

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Along with stone, mud and animal parts, wood was one of the first materials worked by early humans. Microwear analysis of the Mousterian stone tools used by the Neanderthals show that many were used to work wood. The development of civilization was closely tied to the development of increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.

Answer 8

Where are you located, makes a big difference. Now unless you have some timber on your property you do not burn wood. You do burn corn instead, works graeat. Of course if you are in the midwest, no problem getting corn. Hope this helps......

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Answer 10

Quite well. PeteB has answered your ?. As for me, wood heat is the only way to go, and don't believe it pollutes any more than the thousands of vehicles on the roads or any other heat source. Happy heating.