In part because of this, (and ongoing trends suggesting the end of cheap oil, and wanting to move to a 100% renewable source), sometime in the next several months we're planning to get one of these.
did you ever consider that maybe you'd need the place to go actually place this as well? I mean you may want this fine... but you really need the place that suits it's use... Ie for instance an underground house and that costs some serious money.
Got it (the Casa is not underground, except for the basement, but already set up for hydronic hot water heating). This is a swap-out furnace for an existing oil furnace which has to come out anyway, because it's using an in-ground tank, which will eventually, inevitably, leak. Rather than replacing it with another oil burner, I'm putting in the wood-burner with a large water heat storage tank (operates much like a big thermal reservoir or battery, so you only have to fire up the furnace once a day or so during the winter, once a week during the summer), with a propane backup in case we're all away for a while. It's all very civilized, but we've got enough woods that I'll be able to heat the place just from natural deadfall, totally sustainable long-term.
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Date: 2005-04-01 11:20 pm (UTC)I mean you may want this fine... but you really need the place that suits it's use... Ie for instance an underground house and that costs some serious money.
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Date: 2005-04-02 04:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-02 05:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-02 07:00 pm (UTC)Hydronic is what?