[Greenbuilding] wood heating: fuel consumption/HDD

[Corwyn]

On Nov 02, 2007, at 09:57, Reuben Deumling wrote:

> I burned my wood stove for .33hrs/Heating Degree Day during the 
> Oct-May heating season last winter. I'm already doing much better this 
> year, without even adding much insulation, which is my medium term 
> goal, of course. Anyone else calculating this sort of thing?

I keep track of logs per day, and daily temperature highs and lows.  
But that data is pretty suspect.  I am not sure how I would measure 
hours of wood stove use.  How do you do it?

Proper data would probably be pounds of wood, moisture content of wood, 
and measured local degree-days.  Perhaps one day I will get inspired to 
do that.  Anyone know of an easy to get historical degree day database?

I will, of course, put in my plug for BTUs/Degree-day as a useful 
metric, and remind people that a on-line calculator for such is 
available at my website: http://www.greenfret.com/metric.html

Thank You Kindly,

Corwyn

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