Heating with biomass / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

A modern outdoor wood boiler in a snowy rural yard
Wood stove and biomass heat

Outdoor Wood Burning Boilers - Are Centralized Hydronic Heaters Efficient for Home Heating?

...with hydronic heating systems and radiant floors.  Standard wood stoves offer instant heat, but without capturing it within thermal mass, you end up with pretty noticeable differences in temperature over a 24-hour cycle. Direct source heating the way it provided by most wood stoves, also means cooler temperatures anywh...

High efficiency wood burning fireplaces and how to choose the best
Wood stove and biomass heat

Choosing the Best Wood-Burning Fireplace Inserts or Stoves for Heat Output & the Environment

...heating How to find the best wood burning fireplace inserts with a blower? Here we love innovation and innovative products, but when looking for the best wood burning fireplace inserts with a blower, maybe some automation and for the purpose of whole home heating with a wood fire, we have to go with experience and rep...

Wood pellet stoves that don't need electric ideal for off grid operation
Wood stove and biomass heat

These wood pellet stoves for off-grid heating don't need electric to operate

...with people wanting heat security at home, particularly the people who may have lived in a school gymnasium or with their in-laws for those two gruelling weeks. Wood stoves only create an air quality issue when there is a high concentration of them in urban areas, it does not pose the same health risk when they're used...

Tiny house

Off-grid tiny house in the heart of the Sierras.

...Without a bedroom or bathroom per se, but equipped with a hot tub and chairlift, this gorgeous Tiny House is most perfectly situated in the heart of the Sierras.  © Mike Basich Basich began his career as one of the pioneers of snowboarding. Once embroiled in competitions, he lived a very "big" life which he ...