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- From: mpb@troy.cc.bellcore.com (bunz,marcus p)
- Subject: Re: Wood Burning Stoves vs Screened Fireplace
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 14:55:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.145531.28189@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <1992Dec24.012657.24025@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>, patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (patterson,george r) writes:
- > In article <BzqMuz.5n0@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> wesw@sr.hp.com (Wes Whiteley) writes:
- > >I'm not positive about this, but I think that a wood burning stove requires
- > >the fan to be running for it to work. Therefore, if you lose power during a
- > >storm, you may not be able to use a wood burning stove....
- >
- > Wood burning stoves have been around for centuries. Some have fans which
- > drive air through tubes in the chimney, but I'm not familiar with any
- > which have to have electricity to operate.
- >
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- > |
- > George Patterson - | When you're working on a project and drop
- > | something, it will never reach the ground.
- > |
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Technically, you are correct, the wood burning part of the stove
- does not require electricity to operate, however the built in
- automatic damper adjustment/clock radio/cordless phone/answering
- machine won't operate, unless you have the built-in co-generation
- option. :-)
-
- Marc
-
- I wonder if anyone in Applied Research is looking into such a thing?
-
-