AILDWarrior
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@Log Home I'm pragmatic to a fault, so it's difficult for me to wrap my head around buying a furnace and then planning to use a fuel source other than the one that it was designed for.
I don't know if you're a car person, but it's like buying a car that's built to use 87 octane fuel and then putting 91 in it instead. You're just wasting money and a premium fuel. My opinion (and it's just an opinion) is that you should be buying that DS furnace if your plan is to burn primarily anthracite coal since that's what it's designed for.
Though I haven't seen it, I know there are some people here in AK who use wood burning boilers like you showed a few posts ago. I bet The Boiler Room of Hearth would provide lots of advice on that topic.
As for heating a residential space, it's going to be very hard to beat an efficient modern wood stove designed for burning wood. We've already discussed that heating fuel is more efficient than wood, but it is a non-renewable and doesn't meet your specific goals.
I don't know if you're a car person, but it's like buying a car that's built to use 87 octane fuel and then putting 91 in it instead. You're just wasting money and a premium fuel. My opinion (and it's just an opinion) is that you should be buying that DS furnace if your plan is to burn primarily anthracite coal since that's what it's designed for.
Though I haven't seen it, I know there are some people here in AK who use wood burning boilers like you showed a few posts ago. I bet The Boiler Room of Hearth would provide lots of advice on that topic.
As for heating a residential space, it's going to be very hard to beat an efficient modern wood stove designed for burning wood. We've already discussed that heating fuel is more efficient than wood, but it is a non-renewable and doesn't meet your specific goals.
