Getting way off the original topic,I've got a question I';m too lazy to google for (and think people might be interested in the answer to):
Any ideas out in this group on a cost comparison between the costs of operating home heating oil furnaces (meaning potentially biodiesel heating) and propane heating? I know that I'm asking a pretty general question without specifics on particular equipment, however, we're wondering if there's any easy answers about relative efficiency of burning the two fuels and the cost differences per gallon or pound or whatever (I'm not living in an area where home heating oil is common, in fact, I don't believe we really get winter here anyhow, was running around town wearing shortsleeves and sandals yesterday). A group of us are going into the design phase of the small strawbale structure we're volunteer-building next summer for a community center in eastern Montana- the passive solar and superinsulated elements of the building should make it cheap to heat, but we're still looking for a small home heating oil furnace to use in it, and looking for some economic justification for them to go the oil heating (and biodiesel) route for their heating rather than propane options which of course are readily available in small heaters (don't know much yet about small oil furnaces)... thanks in advance, Mark At 07:11 AM 1/7/2003 -0600, you wrote: >Propane is getting very expensive, if one uses a generator run on WVO, >it is much cheaper than paying for propane. Also, it put fewer fumes >and gasses into the house, which is much healthier. I agree that one >should capture the waste energy heat from the generator, but rather than >using it for heating, a more constant need would be domestic hot water, >with the excess used for heat. > >Bright Blessings, >Kim > >Robby Davenport wrote: > > > the use of a generator to run electric stoves is very expensive better > > to use propane same for driers and if you capture the heat from gen set > > use hydronics or a small heat pump to move the heat , look up > > polarpowerinc.com they have a bunch of explaining on this sort of thing > > and they have small packaged co gen units as well. Robert > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Sponsor >ADVERTISEMENT ><http://rd.yahoo.com/M=241773.2725424.4169802.1925585/D=egroupweb/S=1705083269:HM/A=1394046/R=0/*http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/pac_ctnt/text/0,,HGTV_3936_5802,FF.html>8cfff05.jpg > > >8d00013.jpg > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: ><http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html>http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuels list archives: ><http://archive.nnytech.net/>http://archive.nnytech.net/ > >Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. >To unsubscribe, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the ><http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
