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    switch from wood to coal

    If you can get Rice coal, check out Reading stove company. I was able to check out there stoves 1st hand, they are beautiful (if aesthetic is a...
    Post by: sstanis, May 30, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Hearth.com meetup Party (lowel,ma) - Save the date!

    Wow, wonderful idea for meeting. Gotta see if I am scheduled to be on-call that day. Would love to come. OMG. Mead, drink a few of those, and...
    Post by: sstanis, May 30, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Ethanol from corn...What they're not telling you.

    In my humble opinion, I agree corn-based ethanol is not the way to go. However, we need to look at it for what it really is--a stepping stone to...
    Post by: sstanis, May 30, 2007 in forum: The Green Room
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    Making a wood burning or biomass electrical generator

    believe it or not, in manhattan and other parts of the 5 boroughs of NYC, district heating and cooling is accomplished. ConED has their power gen...
    Post by: sstanis, May 30, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Making a wood burning or biomass electrical generator

    Have researched this topic. will have to remember what site I saw it on, but some european company sells a residential wood boiler that produces...
    Post by: sstanis, May 30, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Lets compare soapstone, cast, and steel stoves

    Surprised, someone did not add to the original specifics, how is the house insulated, how many windows and what is there U-Value. The reason why I...
    Post by: sstanis, Apr 28, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    John Travolta - solution for Global Warming

    How bout ole' John flies the regular airlines like everyone else. I can see if he were so high-powered company official or a CEO of sort, where 1/2...
    Post by: sstanis, Apr 14, 2007 in forum: The Green Room
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    Check out this wood splitter

    Yeah, sorry bout that one, missed that he was waving with that right arm. Still kinda worried about his sac. Should email him and see if he still...
    Post by: sstanis, Feb 24, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Check out this wood splitter

    Ah, the ole' death by unicorn. The guy already has one arm missing. Wonder what caused that? If ya look how he places the wood, he'll be missin...
    Post by: sstanis, Feb 23, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
  10. sstanis
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    Love the smell of walnut burning.

    "smells like victory"
    Post by: sstanis, Feb 23, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Betcha can't burn that in a pellet stove

    Figured that I would add a little humour. We all have, in a pinch, thrown "non-sanctioned" items into our stove. Not saying that I am advocating...
    Thread by: sstanis, Feb 23, 2007, 30 replies, in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    I just bought a cord of wood, but it's damp and hisses when I burn it. What can I do?

    Depends upon your definition of wet. The stuff that I know, just by looking at it and feeling it, that will hiss, sizzle, spit and bubble. Fill up...
    Post by: sstanis, Feb 16, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    I just bought a cord of wood, but it's damp and hisses when I burn it. What can I do?

    Microwaves heat water by dielectric and magnetic resonance, given a certain gigahertz. It is the dilelectric (where the water molecules having both...
    Post by: sstanis, Feb 16, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    I just bought a cord of wood, but it's damp and hisses when I burn it. What can I do?

    Actually Disco, heating water by microwave uses 30% less energy for a given volume than electrical resistance, just by the way it "cooks" That...
    Post by: sstanis, Feb 16, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    I just bought a cord of wood, but it's damp and hisses when I burn it. What can I do?

    sorry, my microwave is 2.1 cubic ft
    Post by: sstanis, Feb 15, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
  16. sstanis
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    I just bought a cord of wood, but it's damp and hisses when I burn it. What can I do?

    Not really, a decent microwave, is 1600watts/hour. or 1.6kwh or in my area it costs 16 cents to operate the nuker for an hour during the day or 10...
    Post by: sstanis, Feb 15, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Basement Wood Stove and "Thermal Mass" of concrete walls

    Corie is correct. yes one might say by looking at the numbers concrete is poor for thermal storage. But ya also gotta look at the values: usually...
    Post by: sstanis, Feb 15, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    I just bought a cord of wood, but it's damp and hisses when I burn it. What can I do?

    Surprised that an ole' tip that had been posted on this board b4 was not mentioned. If ya have an old microwave sitting in the basement or taking...
    Post by: sstanis, Feb 15, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Could this be the future answer to pellet raw material issues

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17075088/
    Thread by: sstanis, Feb 13, 2007, 6 replies, in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Hearthstone Heritage operating question

    It is continual, consistent fires above 600degrees that will overfire. Key here is consistent and continual. If your stove is consistently at 600+...
    Post by: sstanis, Feb 12, 2007 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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