Burning a fire is a peaceful, pleasant way to warm your home. It reduces your consumption of electricity and lowers your utility bills. Not all fireplaces are the same, however.
Depending on your purposes – heating your home, augmenting electrical heat, and so forth – you will want to look at various types of fireplaces to find the most eco-friendly option for your needs.
Here are some types of fireplaces to consider.
These heaters are very clean burning. Few emissions are produced and the pellets themselves are made from waste materials. This gives them a definite environmental advantage. Also, you don’t need a chimney to burn pellets in a pellet
However, pellet stoves are not permissible in some dwellings such as mobile homes, so you’ll need to make sure you can have one if it’s what you’d like to install. Also, pellet stoves do require electricity to run and the initial purchase of the heater can be expensive. You have to buy the pellets, too – unlike wood-burning stoves, free fuel is not to be had.
Wood-burning fireplaces do have a certain natural, woodsy appeal. And the fuel, wood logs, is renewable. Sometimes you can even come by firewood for free, such as from a neighbor who is cutting down a tree or if a tree falls in your neighborhood and needs to be cut up and hauled away. No electricity is required to burn wood, although an electric blower (which uses much less electricity than central electric heat) can greatly augment your wood-burning fireplace’s heating capabilities.
Wood-burning fireplaces are messy, though, and the smoke produced is cause for environmental concern. And more than just smoke comes out the chimney – heat escapes, too, especially if you use an open fireplace rather than a wood-burning insert. Also, wood-burning fireplaces produce copious amounts of ash which has to be disposed of responsibly (our ancestors made lye soap from wood ash).
These types of fireplaces are not very expensive, especially compared to the other options, and they are convenient and
portable. There are no real flames, adding to the safety of this type of fireplace. Essentially, they are a glorified space
Electric fireplaces do, obviously, use electricity. While they do not use nearly what a central heating system uses, they are
still greater consumers of electrical energy than the other types of fireplaces.
With a real flame but without the hassle of hauling, stacking, and burning wood, gas fireplaces offer much of the ambience of wood burning without the inconvenience. There are even models of gas fireplaces that do not use a chimney, conserving heat within the home and reducing the amount of heat released into the atmosphere.
Carbon monoxide is a concern, particularly with regard to the unvented or chimney-less models. And of course, you’ll need a supply of natural gas to make the flame.
Kuwasha moto ni njia yenye amani na yenye kupendeza ya kupasha joto nyumba yako. Inapunguza matumizi ya umeme na kupunguza bili za huduma. Hata hivyo, si moto wote unafanana. Kulingana na makusudi yako - kupasha nyumba yako joto, kuongeza joto la umeme, na kadhalika - utataka kuangalia aina mbalimbali za moto ili kupata chaguo la mazingira bora zaidi kwa mahitaji yako. Hapa kuna aina fulani za moto za kuzingatia. Vipuli hivi vya joto huwaka kwa njia safi sana. Matokeo machache hutokezwa na pellets wenyewe hutengenezwa kutoka kwa vifaa vya taka. Hilo huwapa faida dhahiri ya kimazingira. Hata hivyo, pellet stoves si kuruhusiwa katika baadhi ya makazi kama vile nyumba za mkononi, hivyo unahitaji kuhakikisha unaweza kuwa na moja kama ni nini ungependa kufunga. Pia, jiko la pellet huhitaji umeme ili lifanye kazi na ununuzi wa kwanza wa heater unaweza kuwa wa gharama kubwa. Lazima ununue pellets, pia <unk> tofauti na stoves kuni-kuwaka, mafuta ya bure si kuwa na. Moto wa kuni unavutia sana kwa sababu ni wa asili. Na mafuta, magogo ya mbao, yanaweza kubadilishwa. Wakati mwingine unaweza hata kuja na kuni bila malipo, kama vile kutoka kwa jirani ambaye ni kukata chini mti au kama mti huanguka katika kitongoji chako na inahitaji kukatwa na kusafirishwa mbali. Hakuna umeme inahitajika kuchoma kuni, ingawa blower umeme (ambayo hutumia umeme kidogo sana kuliko joto kuu umeme) inaweza sana kuongeza uwezo wako kuni moto moto joto. Hata hivyo, moto unaotumiwa kuchoma mbao ni mchafu, na moshi unaotokezwa ni jambo linaloweza kusababisha wasiwasi wa mazingira. Na zaidi ya moshi tu hutoka kwenye chemchemi - joto hutoka pia, hasa ikiwa unatumia jiko la moto la wazi badala ya chombo cha kuchoma kuni. Pia, moto wa kuni hutokeza majivu mengi ambayo yanapaswa kuondolewa kwa njia yenye kutegemeka (baba zetu walitengeneza sabuni ya lye kutokana na majivu ya mbao). Aina hii ya moto si ghali sana, hasa ikilinganishwa na chaguzi nyingine, na ni rahisi na portable. Hakuna moto halisi, jambo linaloongeza usalama wa aina hii ya moto. Kwa kweli, ni mahali pa kufurahisha, na moto wa umeme ni muhimu sana. Ingawa hazitumii karibu kile mfumo wa joto kuu hutumia, bado ni watumiaji wakubwa wa nishati ya umeme kuliko aina nyingine za moto. Kwa kuwa moto huo ni wa kweli lakini hauna matatizo ya kubeba, kuweka, na kuchoma kuni, moto wa gesi hutoa hali nzuri ya kuchoma kuni bila usumbufu. Hata kuna mifano ya moto wa gesi ambayo haitumii chemchemi, kuhifadhi joto ndani ya nyumba na kupunguza kiasi cha joto iliyotolewa katika anga. Kaboni monoksidi ni wasiwasi, hasa kuhusiana na unvented au chimney-less mifano. Na bila shaka, utahitaji gesi ya asili ili kuwasha moto.