On 12/27/2020 4:54 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, December 27, 2020 at 11:14:42 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 12/27/2020 3:58 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>> On Sunday, December 27, 2020 at 3:30:05 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>>>> On 12/26/2020 10:22 PM, Master Bruce wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 22:11:13 -0500, Dave Smith
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2020-12-26 9:53 p.m., Bob wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I was younger heating with wood was good exercise and using the
>>>>>>> stove to cook at times was fun. Famil room was always nice and warm too.
>>>>>>> Not sure how much money I actually saved but at some point I found it
>>>>>>> easier to write checks for oil than split and haul wood.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not to mention the problem of most fireplaces sucking all that warm air
>>>>>> out of the rest of the house to feed the fire.
>>>>>
>>>>> So fireplaces make the room colder instead of warmer. Damn, I should
>>>>> have known!
>>>> A plain fireplace is pretty but quite inefficient for heating. Most of
>>>> the heat goes right up the chimney.
>>>>
>>>> A free standing wood stove does a much better job for heating.
>>> A free standing wood stove does radiate a lot of heat but my guess is that most of the heat still goes up the chimney.
>>>
>> Old stoves were 50% efficient on a good day, but now they are about 85%
> I might be wrong but my guess is that a stove won't be getting an 85% percent efficiency rating unless it has refinements such as an outside air intake and/or catalytic converter and/or heat exchangers.
>
They've been using catalytic converters for about 25 years now.