When we moved to our little cabin in the mountains we had dreams of one day living off-grid. Being in a rural area, we were already on a well and septic system, but very dependent on our rural electric "co-op"...and I use that term loosely. While most of our neighbors have gas (er, no pun intended), our house was never equipped with it. Instead, we've depended on electric baseboard heaters to keep our house "warm" in the winter. I use that term loosely too since it takes all we have to get it up to 60 degrees on the colder days. Our highest electric bill last winter was $650. Forget environmental sustainability, that's not anywhere in the neighborhood of financially sustainable for us.
But today, my friends, today the chains that shackled us to those electric baseboard heaters have been broken by this little beaut' ~
Okay, so the massive black metal kind of takes away from the beauty that was the huge, open stone fireplace but man does this baby put out some heat!
I'm not 100% over-the-moon about this option, since it does mean burning trees, but I think it's better than gas or electric since we can use wood found on our land from fallen or dead trees. Now if I could just match a couple of those PowerBall numbers we could finally get solar panels. Baby steps.
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Hurray for you! I'm so happy that you're warm and cozy!
we use a woodburner to supplement our all electric home too...and I can even cook some things on the shelf of it. From what I understand, burning wood is a much greener option than coal power; as wood burning produces carbon but this is offset by the carbon the tree gobbled up in the first place.
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Electric Baseboard Heaters
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