Propane / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...propane, for an off-grid home for example? Propane has many of the disadvantages as natural gas, for health as well as for the environment. To maximize the performance of a sustainable heating system, we have also analyzed whether outdoor wood boilers are efficient enough to meet the demands of modern high-performance ...

...Propane or natural gas, which burns hottest? Propane burns hotter than natural gas. When comparing the two fuels, propane has a higher energy content per unit volume or weight, which means it can produce more heat when burned. This higher energy content results in a higher flame temperature for propane compared to natu...

...propane or butane for cooking because of the ease of portability,  especially when boondocking! It may make your tiny home freezing cold, but if you do have a gas stove, please be sure to open up a couple of windows for cross ventilation, and also if possible, shut the gas off outside when you're not actually cooking. ...

...Propane is sometimes believed to be a cleaner fossil fuel: we compare natural gas and propane environmental impacts here. Cost-wise, gas may be cheap now, but that simply cannot last. As countries, and even states, provinces and cities are supporting a transition towards clean and renewable energy, we believe heating w...

...propane, wood and other bio-fuels, then moving on to the various forms of renewable energy, each of which has a negative footprint of some kind. As an example - solar panels need to be fabricated using metal, plastics and certain rare earth metals that are in dwindling supply. Windmills have a similar footprint as they...

The cleaner burning process (than diesel fuel) and price has made heating and cooking with natural gas quite popular in the last couple of decades. However, popularity put a pretty heavy dent in supply, so much so that alternative sources are being explored to meet demand. There are some potentially greener sources of ...