When it comes to wood boiler efficiency, too many are “high efficiency” boilers. How could practically all wood boilers be considered highly efficient? Is the term meaningless? Even informed buyers must find the landscape very confusing. One might think a government website could help solve the confusion. However, even the EPA site listing certified wood… Read More »
From the back windows at home we look to the west, down over the leach field, back lawn, and past the vegetable garden, then over a small field to a stone wall and tree line that runs parallel to the back of our house. Another stone wall intersects the first wall at a 90-degree angle… Read More »
Israel River Campground in Jefferson, NH has been burning over 12 cords of wood and 1,400 gallons of oil per season for 10 years in an HS-Tarm Excel multi-fuel wood gasification boiler. The almost 7,000 square foot main building, which houses the camp store, bathrooms, laundry facilities, recreation room, and owner’s living quarters is a… Read More »
Wood burning is carbon neutral. For thousands of years, wood burning has been carbon neutral. Now that we face a climate crisis, some people have concluded that wood burning is no longer carbon neutral. What changed? Here’s what hasn’t changed: People believe the science they want to believe. Some think all forestry is unsustainable. Other’s… Read More »
A Box of Water with Fire Inside Wood boilers control fire. It’s an old story. The ancient people discovered fire. Hairy the caveman rubbed two sticks together and made an ember. Hairy controlled his fire by adding the right size wood at the right time. Modern people didn’t like caves or living outside, so they… Read More »
A Fertile Opportunity for Renewable Heating Sometimes nice old buildings present fertile opportunities for renewable heating makeovers with Fröling wood pellet boilers. Here is a great example. The 30,000 square foot office and warehouse was built starting in 1965 by New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson for his Equity Publishing business. As Governor Thomson’s business grew… Read More »
The house is a two-story 4,800 (total) square foot log structure built by its owners several decades ago. The roof is supported by scissor trusses, which create vaulted ceilings and a small attic space above the ceilings. Originally, there were two boilers providing the heat, a Frank’s Wood Boiler and a separate oil boiler, both… Read More »
Brian Millette is retiring! Tomorrow, Wednesday May 9th, will be Brian’s last day at Tarm Biomass. Brian started working for Nichols Hardware in September of 1988. I was still in high school at the time. Brian was originally a floor clerk in the hardware store, which was owned by my Father Jim Nichols and Uncle… Read More »
The first Fröling Turbomat 500 (TM 500) has arrived in the USA! The TM 500 is a 1.7 mm Btu/hr. boiler capable of burning wood chips up to 45% moisture content or wood pellets. The boiler weighs over 18,000 pounds, in large part due to its heavily bricked firebox, which is necessary for wetter wood… Read More »
