[Greenbuilding] Fireplace questions

[Norbert Senf]

At 10:43 AM 11/8/2006 -0500, Keith Winston wrote:
>It seems to me there's still a hot debate about the outside air issue.
>Often, the point is made that the fire must warm indoor or outdoor air
>to the same temperature before combustion, and therefor the net energy
>is the same.

Keith:

Here's some more info on outside air:

http://www.woodheat.org/outdoorair/outdoorair.htm

http://mha-net.org/docs/R2000-2.pdf

http://mha-net.org/msb/docs/airreq.PDF

http://mha-net.org/msb/docs/rept-makeup.PDF

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Pages/communications/CO/co_cases.html


Norbert

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