Andrea?

[stusnyder]

Originally Posted by Username1

Well While I continue to search CL for a working time machine, I only have today's
energy to look at. And while I have seen many pictures of really smokey smoke stacks
from many years ago, my experiences with coal are quite different. I can hardly tell when
my stove is running, both inside, and outside. But when any of the neighborhood wood stoves are
on I can tell, And the roofs of the oil burners are all pretty dirty compared to mine....

I am sure most stoves are not really that efficient, especially from many years ago, and
smokey fuel rich fires were sources of lots of smoke.... But coal needs a good draft,
and fuel rich air starved coal fires go out, they tend not to smoke.... I think most
of the smoke from what you remember was non anthracite coal fires, or mixed fuel
fires, like yours was, or really poor fire place designs....

I guess I just can't imagine living with something that smokes inside....
Or did I just get lucky....

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We have a heat pump, but when it gets real cold, we fire up our harman magnafire coal stove. It's self feed, wall mount thermostat control. Has harmans version of the coal - trol. When the thermostat is not calling for heat, the feeder stops for 10 minutes, then runs for 2 minutes, and continues like that untill the thermostat calls for heat, then the feed kicks on full bore.
Keeps the house within 2 degrees of the thermostat setting. It uses rice coal. the hopper hold 100 pounds.
Our prices are a bit cheaper than yours. We are right in the heart of anthracite country. And you never see nothing out of the chimney, just heat waves.