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Buying kiln dried firewood is just silly. It burns like paper.
It works ok for splitting into small pieces for kindling to start a fire. But I was never use it as the primary fuel source in my wood burning stove.
Not all sellers use kiln drying. I have found that the overpriced bundles sold at Home Depot and Lowes do, but many small local places by me sell it by the cord, naturally dried/seasoned, split, deliverd, and stacked at your house for a good price.
don't most fireplaces have air vents?
what i mean is control the oxygen, control the combustion.
add water to the wood and then you have to evaporate the water before the wood can burn.
Edit. i just read a link posted below me about wood, apparently turning down o2 causes problems with tar and incomplete combustion. My new suggestion is to heat water in a sealed pressure container (no excess humidity).
Exactly dbar. Kiln drying of firewood is a huge waste of uneeded energy chasing timely currency and orders of untimely deliveries.
Nate's article is top notch nonetheless, I especially like when he brings the fiat dollar into the energy equation and then vacates/sidesteps the thought/ramifications rather timely :o)
The fiat handlers care little of whom makes or contrives actions, laws, populace democrazies, or usurped adjusted directives of human wills...As long as they control the medium that has the final deciding factor, then the war between finite resources and ever infinite fiat will escalate. It is a losing/jugglin' balancing act based on an increasingly stupidfied society that can not fathom the value of cheap energy in their daily needs of unlimited mammon consumption. Such was that life. The shock waves continue to reverberate, but our programmed blind denseness can no longer feel the warnings.
Excellent thoughts sir.
Takecare