[Magdalen] gas prices?

[Jay Weigel]

Speaking of wood stoves, we have bought a pellet stove, which was an
interesting process. We discovered when we first set out to buy one that
almost all of them depend on ELECTRICITY for the fan and blower, which
seems pretty counterintuitive, if you're trying to save energy.....DUH! So
we went back to square one, since we already had a wood stove, and started
looking again. S/O, in his usual methodical way, hunted around until he
found this: http://www.wisewaypelletstoves.com The WiseWay pellet stove is
basically a wood stove that burns the same pellets as pellet stoves, but
has a unique gravity feed system that eliminates the mechanical and
electrical necessities. As far as we know, we'll be the only people in the
area to have one. There is an outfit in Charlottesville that installs them,
but we asked our chimney service if they could do it. After some dickering
back and forth, they finally agreed to do all but the final tiny
connection.....some little thing to do with insurance, I gather. It's not a
big deal and the guy will show S/O what to do. It arrives in a couple of
weeks. Our existing wood stove will be migrated to the workshop and next
year will be properly installed there so we can heat that decently at last.
It is damned hard to do any lapidary when half of you is freezing due to
inadequate and uneven space heaters.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:

> Yes, and I'm sure that when you moved to Scranton you installed a
> woodstove so you wouldn't be heating your home using fossil fuels. Down in
> Mass., we have an option (which I use) for all one's electricity to come
> from renewable sources. Can you do that in Pa.? We also never use a dryer
> to dry our clothes - just hang them to dry. I hope you do that too and thus
> avoid using fossil fuels.
>
> See - others can be snarky too.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jim Guthrie
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 10:33 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] gas prices?
>
>
> It appears that most of this thread consists of votes in favor of more
> fossil
> fuel use and in favor Global Warming.
>
> If these are important issues, I think one should be appalled by the drop
> in
> prices.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim Guthrie
>