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Green Ways to Heat Your Home and Save Money
We are all looking for ways to save money and stay green but often there has to be a compromise between comfort, cost and the environment. Many devices such as solar panels or wind turbines may produce power but for some people the cost can out-weigh the benefits.
But there are plenty of ways to save money; stay green and heat your home and often these ways come from unexpected quarters. Open-fires for instance are often considered not to be very environmentally friendly; after-all they do produce smoke that pumps carbon dioxide into our environment. But then again, so do we!
When you start burning waste material, stuff like used teabags, old newspapers, junk mail, toilet rolls etc, much of which is difficult to recycle then the benefits to the environment out-weigh the negative effects that burning this material causes, particularly if the material burns slowly, produces lots of heat with little smoke.
There are ways to increase efficiency in burning recycled waste. The best method is to pack the material as tightly as possible as this helps it burn more slowly. There are devices like log-makers that can scrunch up waste material so tight they can burn almost as well as natural logs.
Another way to reduce smoke is to ensure any logs produced by the log maker are key dry. Damp logs produce lots of smoke and little heat. The best method is to buy a simple log store. A log store will ensure all logs produced in the log maker remain perfectly dry and burn slowly.
Even burning natural logs does not have to be bad for the environment. If logs are used from reclaimed timber or renewable forests then it ensures new trees are planted regularly. New trees absorb far more carbon dioxide than older trees and as you will be relying on power stations a lot less, burning wood, kept dry in a log store is a green alternative method of heating a home.
Being green doesn’t have to cost a fortune in expensive technology. Sometimes the older ways are the best and by using log makers, log stores and renewable timber we can be just as green.
About the Author
Richard N Williams is a technical author and a specialist in eco-friendly products and innovations. Please contact us if you are interested in recycling, eco gifts the log maker or a log store
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