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Wood Burners – The Heating Technology Of The Future?
February 4th, 2010
You have to admit that proposing the wood stove as a mainstream heating technology for the 21st Century hardly seems credible, but follow along and discover why this blast from the past has a rosy future ahead of it.
The original design of the wood stove dates back to the mid 18th Century and a certain Benjamin Franklin, who lived in the new and rapidly growing city of Philadelphia. The rate of development was such that there was soon a severe shortfall in firewood supplies which prompted him to invent a device he named the circulating stove.
This new stove was orders of magnitude more efficient than a conventional open fire, which meant quite simply that a lesser amount of wood was needed which in turn significantly eased the extra demand for this finite resource. The first design was soon improved with a front door, to seal and even better regulate the airflow, and it remained essentially unchanged for the next two hundred or so years.
By the time the 1970s rolled around, a familiar story resurfaced; the oil crises of that time limited the supply of oil which in turn impacted the many people who by this time relied on gas and oil to operate their heating systems. Many quite sensibly started to reconsider wood burners given the readily available and thus more affordable supply of fuel.
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