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Come Home To A Real Fire

Mon 07 Jan 2008 - 15:58

Come Home To A Real Fire
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Chris_D_Brown]Chris D Brown

The average household throws out over 500kg of paper and cardboard packaging each year. With a wood burning stove most of that can be converted into free energy. Cardboard and paper can definitely be used as free fuel instead of bought logs or coal.

There are a few downsides. Firstly, when paper is compressed into briquettes it can efficiently burn for hours just as good as store bought briquettes or wood logs. However, the process of making paper logs involves getting them wet and then letting them dry. This can literally take months, and if you are too eager to see the paper burn and attempt to light it while it is still full of moisture, two things can happen. At best you will not be able to light the recycled log or briquette. At worst, the log will burn, but will not generate enough heat and will therefore clog the chimney with sooty deposits. This can lead to disastrous chimney fires and the loss of life and property.

However, if you are prepared to follow instructions and be very patient, you really can get a free half ton of fuel each year to keep your house warm. Just collect all that paper and card and turn it into recycled logs and briquettes. In the past this sort of saving this would have given you was very little in terms of money. In the modern age, with the cost of fuel rising at a frankly alarming rate and the problems of global warming becoming all too apparent, the savings for both our pockets and the environment are just to high to be ignored.

Find out more about [http://woodstoves.newarchaeology.com/makelogs.php ]making recycled newspaper logs and other benefits and pitfalls of installing a wood stove in your own home.

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