JOURNEY OF WOOD BURNING STOVES-FROM TRADITION TO MODERN

As you know the winters are around the corner and everybody is planning to buy a stove for them. But the question is coming to your mind that which stove will be better for you and well-matched to your budget?
Not only this you also have to take care that it should also be environment friendly and meet all the standards of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The traditional wood burning stoves that appear in most old movies are not environment friendly and generate lots of pollution. But today's wood burning stoves are high tech in nature and manufactured by the engineers keeping fuel economy in their mind.
In the olden days people have a myth that wood stoves are for indoor smokestacks--and that wouldn't have been too far from the reality but modern wood burning stoves are altogether different from the traditional ones and are one of the greenest sources of radiant heat available in the market.

In the back 60’s and 80’s wood burning stoves cause a lot of pollution and generate a very little heat that is they are not efficient and a lots of fuel was gone wasted in this process and finally it cost to the customer’s pocket. Luckily, a lot of change has been occurred in wood stoves design since those days.

In the 90’s, there was a rising interest in finding substitute of heating sources due to the rising alertness of the impact of fossil fuels (oil, coal) on the atmosphere. In addition, the goal of energy independence caused home owners to reconsider wood burning stoves as a heating system. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also got involved, and made a strict emission standard to make sure that modern wood stoves would meet all the standards and would be environmental friendly in nature.

As a result new stoves were created and engineers integrated the EPA standards in it, and by this way the "modern" wood burning stoves came into existence. after 90’s, every new wood burning stove is permitted by the EPA, and produces a small amount of smoke (2-5 grams per hour) and very little ash as waste. This results in higher efficiency of the modern stoves over the old potbelly stoves, and a 90 percent drop off in emission rate. Hence we can conclude that advanced wood burning stoves burn a small amount of wood and produce a lot of heat and are simultaneously helping the planet.

Now at this point, a question would arise that wood stoves don’t deposit pollutants into the atmosphere just like gas, oil, or coal heating device??
Answer to this question is that wood fuel is different from other fuel source. Although we know that by burning logs or wood pallets, we are releasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but the same carbon dioxide which we are releasing is absorbed or stored by the plant when they was growing. When tree dies and its wood decomposes then CO2 is released by its body into the atmosphere and this is a natural phenomenon since all trees ultimately die. The same thing applies when we burn the wood and wood is a renewable source of energy.

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