Thursday, January 21, 2010

Nuclear powered heater arrives.

Got my Heat exchanger/blower insert for my fireplace. It is pretty simple, a square manifold with a fan, tubes coming out of manifold wrap around the fire in a c shape, air from tubes blown out the front top of fireplace opening. It is one of the the only thing i have bought lately besides food that is made in America.

Puts out about 2 space heaters worth of heat or 20,000 btu's (guess) which is a huge improvement. When I tried the fireplace before without a heat exchanger would guess that it put out 1 BTU

How is this nuclear? Trees grow because of energy from the sun, the sun is nuclear, therefore nuclear power is the source of the heat. Carbon neutral! Particulate emission however is another sadder story.

1 comment:

Scottie said...

Heads up: your food probably wasn't actually made in America.