EcoBricks vs BioBricks?

BioPellet said:

Also, BioBricks(R) are very dense, 1.4 times denser than dry hardwood. When you speak of "burning hot" it's kind of hard to know what is ment, but let's assume we measure how hot things burn by running the test in open air. In fact, if you do this, you find the following trend from burning hottest to coolest:

Wadded newsprint -> kindling -> dry pine -> dry hardwood -> BioBricks. Density is your friend in that it promotes a slower release of energy

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You are absolutely correct, but the danger is not how hot they burn, but the possibility of having a charge that is way too much. The high density allows you to easily over-pack your stove with fuel. I've seen some pretty badly overfired stoves from black locust, and I've hear of even worse with hedge. You should not stuff your stove with either of these woods if it has any tendency to run away on you, or if you are not very cautious about the amount of air that is coming in.

My concern is any stove company that would place parameters on types of wood to burn. I am in the construction material business and I think all warranties on any product is a bunch of crap. All warranties are designed to do is protect the manufacturers from having to honor the quality of there product. I cant see any reason why condensed wood would hurt a stove. I get what you mean about overloading and overheating, but Warranty or not if you someone overloaded there stove and it caused a major problem, I guarantee that would fall into owner negligence. In have used BioBlockfuel here in Ohio and I found if you place the blocks on the bottom of the wood stove and fill the top even with green cord wood, it burns long and hot. Although I recommend seasoned wood.

Found this site after searching on burning EcoBricks.

Wife and I bought about 30 8-packs of them at a local Tractor Supply after seeing them in their sale flyer. Figured we'd try them out in our old woodstove. We have wood left from trees coming down in the storms the past 2-3 years but that will be used up over this winter and as we have electric heat we wanted to try the bio fuel . mainly use the woodstove over weekends and occasional very cold weeknights.

I have to say that the EcoBricks do not seem to give heat for long times, maybe 3 hours tops (6-8 bricks). They do seem to "bloom" up and contrary to what the mfgr says stacking tightly doesn't work too well. I find a looser stack burns better.

Going to look into finding BioBricks locally and see how they do.

Sam