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Home Energy Archive by Category "Heating"

Heating

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This simple DIY trick from Wranglerstar will make splitting firewood a whole lot easier. If you split even one cord of wood ever year, you’ll …

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I met Dr. T.H. Culhane a couple of years ago at a National Geographic conference. He is on a lifelong mission to help the world’s …

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The Pain Mound is a large pile of woody biomass, aka mulch. Invented by French farmer Jean Pain in the 1970s, it is made …

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The Origo 5100 HeatPal by Dometic is an electricity-free heater and cooker that provides 1500 watts of heating or cooking power. It’s designed for …

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Ernie and Erica Wisner have created over 700 rocket mass heaters, or “super stoves” as I like to call them, and in this video …

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Brian Kerkvlies small compost pile on Inspiration Farm provided 500 hot showers over a 2 month period from just 90 minutes of work. Want …

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Well, it doesn’t have to be beer cans exactly…any aluminum can works very well as a solar heater. Although there are a few companies …

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For those of us who have successfully composted in the past, we know that a properly made compost pile produces a substantial amount of …

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I heat most of my home with a pellet stove insert. The house feels much warmer with a pellet stove than with a traditional …

Buy Some Compost and get Free Hot Water?
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Here’s a very cool system that I’m currently considering as part of my home’s resilient make-over.  You might be interested in this too. What …