This is the most modern looking of the wood burners featured today, but it is the least efficient.
I guess you could put up with it being only 78% efficient when it looks so much nicer than one that is 80% efficient 
Though as environmentalists would say – every little helps!
Photo courtesy of GR8 Fires.
I don’t spend much time in my bedroom outside of the time that I am asleep.
However, if you are the sort of person who does, this looks like just the job for keeping you snugly and warm while reading the mandatory glossy magazine.
It’s also best if you have a servant or 2 to keep the stove topped up with dry, untreated wood…
Photo courtesy of GR8fires.co.uk.
I have to admit that I am a big fan of stoves (not the sort you cook on – but the ones you can use to heat your home).
There is just nothing like a solid fuel fire on a cold, dark day. Central heating can do a good job of heating your home, but it’s not exactly pretty to look at!
I am assured that the model in this photo (a 4.5kw wood burner) is 80.3% efficient on wood.
Whatever way you look at it, that is pretty efficient.
It’s also good for the environment.
Photo courtesy of GR8 Fires.
This stove is 80% efficient.
It not only warms you but gives you a warm feeling inside that you are helping to save the environment..
I have a very similar stove to this in my own house, and I live beside a small forest. It saves me hundreds of pounds in fuel bills every winter (though I do occasionally have to buy a new blade for my bow saw).
Photo courtesy of GR8 Fires.
Did you know that a cow will consume around 10% of it’s own body weight in water every day?
There are some very persuasive arguments here :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_vegetarianism
about how vegetarianism is the way forward for the world, and eating meat is not good for the environment..
More than half the world’s crops are used to feed animals.
A person existing chiefly on animal protein requires 10 times more land to provide adequate food than someone living on vegetable sources of protein.
The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.
etc.
If I can just borrow a chainsaw off someone (and an axe) – this should be enough fuel to keep my multi fuel stove going for the winter!
This is usually as bad as it gets here in Ireland.
We like to complain about how bad the weather is (and it does rain *a lot*), but we very rarely get the sort of severe weather which causes havoc in other parts of the world.
This is what a log that is still a bit green looks like after being left overnight on some dying embers in a multi fuel stove.
I’m going to try and perfect this method on Christmas Eve so my stove is still lit when we get up on Christmas day…
These Heat Logs are a brilliant source of heat, and environmentally friendly, carbon neutral (being made from left over wood chip and sawdust).
They give of a lot of heat compared to normal logs, so I’d recommend using them in a multifuel or woodburning stove with all the vents fully closed.
