[Greenbuilding] Fireplace questions

[Corwyn]

On Nov 06, 2006, at 23:22, Bruce Donelson wrote:
> Any fireplace that lays any claim to efficiency will burn outside air

Do you have data for this?  I don't see how outside air helps (in a 
house where a furnace isn't running simultaneously).  Is the stack 
temperature lower in an outside air fed fireplace?

> Big net energy loss.

Again, only if there is a furnace running at the same time.  People 
heated their houses for centuries with fireplaces.  If they were a big 
net energy loss, they would have all frozen to death.

I agree with most everything else.  A nice woodstove gives all the 
ambience of a fireplace in my opinion.

Thank You Kindly,

Corwyn

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