Are people actually saving significant money with pellet stoves?

For every ton of Anthracite coal or Sub Bituminous coal you burn, you burn 2 tons of wood pellets.

There are fuel comparison charts available to look at to give you a world view of wood pellets versus other heating fuels and electricity of course.

In comparing wood pellets With Eastern Anthracite Coal you spend double per ton.

If you live in the Dakotas, lignite coal is less than $10.00 per ton; in Wyoming and Montana Sub Bituminous Coal is less than $10.00 per ton.

The stove warms the room with the thermostat and turns off the furnace

Unless you have an open one room home, they are more of spot heater

They're space heaters. So unless your home is one big space they are maybe not the right choice. Like any space heater they are often responsible for frozen pipes in the spaces they can't reach.

QUOTE: As the saying goes" build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door" attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson

I, for one, believe the steam guys got it right

Regards

RTW

I had a Harmon for 10 years in a condo that was heated with an hot air electric furnace. I was able to heat the entire two upper floors with enough left over to open the windows to somewhat keep it comfortable. This was before automatic controls so once started it was at the same output.

I only used a ton per season & did my own maintenance. Delivery was a pallet put inside the garage that I would then re-stack.

Since then I have moved to a small ranch with oil fired baseboards & indirect DHW plus 5 heat pump heads with 2 condensers for most of my heat.

My neighbor added a Harmon after I told my story, they love it.

It's all about the application and expectations.

My neighbor in Missouri had one in the living room of their small house and loved it. Cut their LP use in half. He was a retired machinist and modified the auger a bit. It was a low cost unit from Lowes.

The distant back bedroom stayed a bit cool, but they used electric blankets anyways.

We had two pellet mills within 30 miles and you could buy direct in pallet quantities, which saves some $$

I was surprised, so I did a little digging and can't find anything that says Elon Musk had anything to do with those heaters and never said anything about them? They're obviously just resistance heaters, so nothing special.

Nah it was from a commonly shared fake article, it fooled a ton of facebook users since most people don't really understand how any of this works, and those that do would definitely believe a tech billionaire who oversells their product might oversell a new product. It's still funny though imo

here is a link to the original, and again this article is 100% fake news he never said any of this stuff lol

https://web.archive.org/web/20240109175335/https://cosmoheater.store/

My experience growing up in a house that was heated with a wood fireplace insert is that cutting, splitting, stacking, drying, hauling, cleaning up after wood sucks.

And then there are the bugs. They wake up when you bring the wood into a warm house in the middle of January.

I much prefer the ability to set a temperature on a little screen and my house is automagically heated to said temperature. Even if pellets, or wood were actually cheaper than NG the time value alone really skews it in favor of NG, or a heat pump.

I have thought about upgrading my disused fireplace to a wood insert, but for backup heat only. Say in the event if a long term power or NG outage. But as a replacement to my central heating system? Nah. My 40 year old boiler with 100 year old radiators keep this drafty house with in a degree of set point. And it costs me less than a grand a year in actual NG.

Those dead men knew a thing or two.

I used to trim trees for the local utility. They paid by the hour. The wood was chunked up on site and thrown into a dump truck. That was then dumped in my back yard.

I had a wood burning furnace next to the NG one in the basement. Wood chute to slide into the basement. 4 kids to keep busy with hauling wood. Could store 1 1/2 cords next to the furnace. 1/2 cord in garage where the chute was. Easy to keep house about 80 when 10 below zero.

Changed jobs and lost that wood supply. Soon went to the NG at about $65 per month. Less than 1 day wages as electrical contractor would cover that.

Sold the furnace, gave the chainsaw to son years later.

If you repeat a lie enough times through many outlets……………..people WILL BELIEVE it!!