Choose between electric and gas fireplace logs
October 5, 2009 by Tucker
Ok, it’s officially winter. It’s freezing cold with temperatures in the single digits and wind chills running 20-30 below zero. Brrr. But what if you don’t have a true built in fireplace? Sometimes you’re left looking for an artificial method for producing that comforting flame.
Vent-free gas fireplace logs produce a flame that is more blue than yellow, not unlike the flame found with many gas space heaters. One of the advantages of using vent-free logs is that they will produce less soot than the vented varieties. Be careful about burning waste paper and fireplace logs in your fireplace. The commercial logs have wax in them. The overall result is that when burning the log set appears far more realistic than is normally the case with fireplace logs.
With gas fireplace logs you can rest assured that you will have the perfect fire any time of day or night, 365 days a year. And if your set doesn’t require any electricity to start the initial flame then you’re assured to have a heat source if you lose electric power during a severe storm. Some of the country’s regions have experienced power losses that run for several days so having a good source of heat is essential.
For many fireplace log sets no natural gas lines or electrical outlets are necessary In fact, with many there is no permanent installation of any kind. Simple math tell you that with proper use of your vent free fireplace, you can achieve a 30% or more reduction in your gas consumption! This can also be a great way to heat your house, shop, or garage.
Really there are no boosters for natural gas lines. Most come in at around 5lb and are regulated down to about 2-3 lbs. And as far as using plastic pipe for gas don't do it. Natural and propane gas use steel or copper pipe for your house 1 so there is no flex in the line and it wont crack under minor movement and 2 code wont allow anything else. Better be careful as a gas leak can kill without exploding.
well done! excellent video!
IF the opening to the fireplace is closed, what you have is bookshelf, not a mantle. And no, it should not be the focal point of the room if the cut out doesn't even exist anymore. For all intents and purposes, you don't have an architectural feature anymore, so you can make the focal point of the room anything you want.
You can't argue semantics and use them at the same time to try an make a point.
The article makes the point I believe in but which appears to not persuade you: doing 50 km over the limt on 401 in dry conditions, with little traffic is NOT the same as doing 50 km over the limit on a residential street, with kids playing, while you pit yourself against another driver.
in addition, speed limits are not rational, but political, and are arbitrary. They are not set according to criteria that are clear and science based. Just as you would be foolish to follow the dotted/double lines as a guide for whether to pass or not to pass, speed limits have taken on absurd relationships with their surroundings.
The .08 limit is backed, I believe, by criteria that are reasonably applied to a broad audience. If you believe you are incapacitated at a level lower, you should govern yourself accordingly, but the converse is not true – stop at the limit set by law.
But speed limits are often determined by non-safety related factors, such as gas consumption rates and the hope that slower cars will be more likely to stop and shop, as examples. Doing 150 km on the 401 in the right conditions is not a reasonable excuse to pop anyone in jail.
This is perfect example of 'moral hazard'. From what I have read, AIG turned down private equity because they were going to have to give up too much control and mgmt knew the Fed would have to do something because of the chaos if AIG failed.
And giving $25/50 billion to automakers to build more fuel efficient cars is crazy. Automakers are huge bureaucratic messes and no real innovation is going to happen in GM or Ford labs.
If U.S. government wants to develop new types of engines to reduce oil/gas consumption, it should set up something like the Ansari X Prize and offer $500 million to the first person/company that can develop a non-gas engine that performs just as well.
The #energy consumption of my home is today, Power 24,19kWh, Water 0,2m3, Gas 0,73m3
Tens of thousands of miles of pipelines that run beneath communities nationwide are old or decaying.
Thats outrageous, the meter is either bad or someone is hooked into Your line stealing elec. I would inspect closely to make sure something is not tapped in.. or Your water heater is leaking hot water and is heating all the time
“Seth: If I understand your comment correctly, you are saying that Combined Cycle Gas Turbines can respond more rapidly to wind speed changes than Open Cycle Gas Turbines. My article does not go into that detail. ”
The other way around: open-cycle turbines are faster reacting than combined cycle plants, with their added steam cycle. But OCGTs are less efficient than CCGTs. So replacing the latter with wind + OCGTs may reduce the fraction of kW-h produced by gas by 1/3, but it won't reduce gas consumption proportionately. Though the claim that it won't reduce gas consumption at all seems extreme.