Comments on: Why pellet stoves are better than a regular wood burning stove

By: wang in Beijing,China

wang in Beijing,China — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:24:16 +0000

If everyone burnt wood log, we would cut down forest.
There would not be rain forest in the world.
There would not be oxigen.
Hummanbeeing would have disapeared in the earth.
In China we make pellet fuel from agriculture waste, like straw.
In the past the farmers simply burnt straw in the field.
The skoke even disturbed landing of air plane.
All society shall have law to control selfish people to burn forest.
sales@allchinas.com

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Are Wood Pellet Stoves Good For Alternative Heating For Your Home … | — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:11:58 +0000

[...] Why pellet stoves are better than a regular wood burning stove [...]

By: David

David — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:13:46 +0000

Interesting article, but shaky on the facts.

Figures from September 2008, available from the Office of National Statistics
and the carbon trust disprove the claim that woodburning stoves
emit more carbon than pellet stoves.www.soliftec.com whilst also
being far cheaper….

given the processing of pellets and the huge distances they
are transported, these two factors alone contribute significantly
to the higher carbon foot print of pellets.

its also misleading to say that you can only burn logs, when the
majority of stoves can run on ecoal and smokeless fuels, peat and
turf briquettes and also on pellets.

This is perhaps why there has been a huge increase in demand
for woodburning and multi fuel stoves and not for pellet stoves

By: Daleus

Daleus — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:19:55 +0000

Pellet stoves may be all that you say they are,
but where I live, the woodstove is not only a way
to reduce my oil bill, but also a backup for when
bad winter weather knocks out power.

Try running your pellet stove in that situation. A pellet
stove needs electricity to power the blower (required to
because the stove can’t maintain combustion on it’s own)
and also to power the fuel feeder unit (required to feed
whatever substance you use, into the combustion chamber).

Yes, a pellet stove can burn a lot of different things but
I hardly think burning grain or other foodstuffs is very
appropriate when there are still so many people starving
in this world.

Grain is something a lot of people have been burning in
my industrialized country, because compressed wood pellets
or pellets made out of waste materials, just aren’t
available! This will likely change, when pellet manufacturing
ramps up to demand but I’m still left wondering how “green”
is the pellet manufacturing process?

Sorry for me, I sustainably harfvested woodlot and my woodstove
are still better choice.