[Cob] regarding fireplaces

[David Knowlton]

heating with wood can be done with very high efficiency.

the germans spend a lot of time designing. sorry, no links

david

>From: "Amanda Peck" <ap615 at hotmail.com>
>To: coblist at deatech.com
>Subject: Re: [Cob] regarding fireplaces
>Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:04:04 -0600
>
>
>True, for most of the fireplaces already built, and the guy on that site 
>seems to think that if fireplaces CAN be done badly, then they're ALL done 
>badly.  But people from at least Ken Kern on have recommended  that you run 
>a good-sized pipe or pipes from the outside into your fireplace, the 
>pictures and diagrams look look as though it is both sides of the fireplace 
>so that your combustion air is outside air.  Kern designed a wood 
>stove--semi-masonry--with this property, but it's probably easier with a 
>fireplace.   the Rumford is very shallow, designed so that theoretically 
>smoke, not smoke + room air goes up the chimney.
>
>I remember being cold as a child in North Carolina the year our only heat 
>was fireplaces and an oil burner that I think my parents were a bit afraid 
>of flames in the room.   And later in Nashville in a mostly un-remodeled 
>1850s row house where we burned coal.  And ran little electric heaters.
>
>I don't think that the passionate defenders of fireplaces live in the 
>higher reaches of the Canadian Rockies.  Connecticut probably.
>.............
>
>Bill wrote:
>Please don't get me wrong. There is something neat about
>a fireplace. I would have one for looks...  But in an area
>that you MUST have high amounts of heat...
>I would be very sorry if I tried to depend on a fireplace
>alone.
>I did a little research, and found this. Although it does not
>go into the science behind why a fireplace isn't the way to
>go for High Heat Output...
>It is worth looking at....
>http://www.consciouschoice.com/sensible/sensible1411b.html
>
>
>
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