Wood Boiler FAQ
If you’re looking for a renewable energy source to heat your home, you may find your solution in an indoor wood boiler. An indoor wood boiler heats cleanly and efficiently. These boilers can serve as either a standalone or supplementary heating source in any type of home, old or new. Learn all about wood boilers […]
Energy Independence is Crucial
Will the United States Learn to Use its Energy Resources? We have an energy problem in the United States. We do not utilize our energy resources and our ample opportunities to conserve. Given world affairs, our wasted ability to be energy independent is more stark than ever. United States should unite on a long term […]
Understanding Wood Boiler Efficiency
When it comes to wood boiler efficiency, too many are “high efficiency” boilers. How could practically all wood boilers be considered highly efficient? Is the term meaningless? Even informed buyers must find the landscape very confusing. One might think a government website could help solve the confusion. However, even the EPA site listing certified wood […]
Fröling CUBE 500S Pellet Storage
[siteorigin_widget class=”Tribe_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Did you know, you could fill the Fröling Cube up with pellets, attached to a PE1 pellet boiler, and heat your whole home quietly and without being too hot in one room, and too cold in another? Plus, you only have to dump the ash box once every month, not once a week. […]
Why Try to Burn Water?
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] A cord of freshly cut hardwood from a northern forest (green firewood) contains about 24,000,000 British Thermal Units (Btus) and weighs about 4,500 pounds. After proper air drying, the same cord weighs only 3,500 pounds. The loss of 1,000 pounds of water at 8.34 pounds per gallon is about 120 gallons. [siteorigin_widget class=”Tribe_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] […]
Wood Energy FAQs
Tarm Biomass sells a broad mix of heating boilers that use diverse forms of wood fuel. We decided to make a simple wood fuel guide that contains frequently asked questions about wood energy. To start with, wood energy is measured in British Thermal Units or BTUs. A BTU is the amount of energy required to […]
Automatic Wood Pellet Boilers and Fuel Storage
Wood is Nature’s Battery
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Storing renewable energy is one of the great challenges of the current age. Until renewable energy can be stored reliably and in massive quantities, we are not able to relinquish our use of fossil and nuclear fuels. There is no single energy storage method that can solve all of our needs, though electric […]
Modern Wood Boilers – The Benefits of Batch Burning
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] What is a “Modern Wood Boiler”? Modern wood boilers use sensors, such as oxygen sensors like those found in modern automobile engines, to provide real-time combustion adjustment with separate primary and secondary air controls. Sometimes these boilers are called “lambda controlled wood boilers”. Modern wood boilers almost always use induced draft fans rather […]
Wood Burning is Carbon Neutral
[siteorigin_widget class=”Tribe_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Wood burning is carbon neutral. For thousands of years, wood burning has been carbon neutral. Now that we face a climate crisis, some people have concluded that wood burning is no longer carbon neutral. What changed? Here’s what hasn’t changed: People believe the science they want to believe. Some think all forestry is […]