I'm the OP, since this thread has gone crazy overnight.
1) Very small delta-T is how this geothermal furnace is supposed to operate. It runs at 300% thermal-to-electric efficiency by barely changing the air temp at all and just doing it forever to sneak up on the target temperature.
2) I don't intend to be self-sufficient off a lot this small. It's more like I've got standing dead and recently toppled trees that I have to get rid of one way or another and burning them for heat sure beats paying the trash people to take the chunks away. I figure anything I mange to process is just free wood to dilute the cost of buying the bulk of my wood.
3) I'm honestly not sure we have room to store 8-12 cords of wood. We're very short of space that isn't a bog, creek, pond, or near vertical. I hadn't thought of that. I was hoping I could buy and stack in mid-spring and have that ready by mid-fall. I didn't realize wood dealers delivered wood that wet.
4) Definitely going to have to be a free-standing wood stove as our house is really weird and the walls aren't vertical.
5) No pellet stove. Being able to get rid of the wood we need to clear out of the property and being able to have heat when the power is out are priorities. Pellet stoves can't do either.
6) Appearance wise, we love the modern looking stoves like the Moroso 7990, The Pacific Energy Neo, and the Hearthstone Lima 8150. However, all these stoves seem to be smaller and offer shorter runtimes and less heat. Are there any sufficiently large stoves with that sort of look?
1) Very small delta-T is how this geothermal furnace is supposed to operate. It runs at 300% thermal-to-electric efficiency by barely changing the air temp at all and just doing it forever to sneak up on the target temperature.
2) I don't intend to be self-sufficient off a lot this small. It's more like I've got standing dead and recently toppled trees that I have to get rid of one way or another and burning them for heat sure beats paying the trash people to take the chunks away. I figure anything I mange to process is just free wood to dilute the cost of buying the bulk of my wood.
3) I'm honestly not sure we have room to store 8-12 cords of wood. We're very short of space that isn't a bog, creek, pond, or near vertical. I hadn't thought of that. I was hoping I could buy and stack in mid-spring and have that ready by mid-fall. I didn't realize wood dealers delivered wood that wet.
4) Definitely going to have to be a free-standing wood stove as our house is really weird and the walls aren't vertical.
5) No pellet stove. Being able to get rid of the wood we need to clear out of the property and being able to have heat when the power is out are priorities. Pellet stoves can't do either.
6) Appearance wise, we love the modern looking stoves like the Moroso 7990, The Pacific Energy Neo, and the Hearthstone Lima 8150. However, all these stoves seem to be smaller and offer shorter runtimes and less heat. Are there any sufficiently large stoves with that sort of look?