| As we look on to the threats posed by the | | | | installed if you buy a stand alone stove. |
| growing dangers of global warming, it has become | | | | Although both wood burning stoves and pellet |
| imperative for us to protect our environment and | | | | stoves are similar in fuel efficiency, they have |
| slow down this perilous situation. Unless we reduce | | | | their varying features. Wood burning stoves |
| the excessive burning of fossil fuels, it will become | | | | require regular attention and everything is |
| impossible for us to control this menace. We can | | | | manually supervised to get the fire going. You |
| help save our ecology by beginning right from our | | | | need to stack the wood and ignite the fuel apart |
| homes and what could be a better way of doing | | | | from which you have to stoke the firewood from |
| it, than using fuel-efficient stoves for heating your | | | | time to time. A pellet burning stove on the other |
| rooms instead of stoves using fossil fuels. Wood | | | | hand is more convenient, as it can be electrically |
| burning and pellet fuelled stoves are a good | | | | operated, but you will have to load the pellets. |
| alternative for room heating and are being widely | | | | However, whichever of the two stoves you |
| considered by most homemakers today. There | | | | install, you will have to take care of its |
| are many retailers who sell stoves over the | | | | maintenance and have it inspected from time to |
| internet so its new even easier to get your hands | | | | time. |
| on one. | | | | There are various models of wood burning stoves |
| Wood or wood pellets that generally comprise of | | | | and pellet burning stoves available in the market |
| sawdust or wood shavings are a more | | | | and since they form a part of your room |
| eco-friendly fuel as compared to other forms of | | | | décor, you can find some attractive |
| fuels such as natural gas, coal or oil. Hence wood | | | | designs and shapes that will integrate well with the |
| burning and pellet burning stoves are becoming | | | | other things in the room. They are designed like |
| popular, as money-saving and environment | | | | showpieces that present an attraction of their |
| friendly heating systems for our homes. If you | | | | own and there is a wide variety of choice |
| have a fireplace, you can use a wood burning or a | | | | available to choose from. Wood stoves and pellet |
| pellet stove as an insert connected right into the | | | | burning stoves are cost effective and enable you |
| chimney, but if you do not have a fireplace a | | | | to save on your electricity bills apart from which |
| standalone stove would serve the purpose. | | | | they help reduce carbon emissions that are the |
| However, you will need to have a chimney | | | | main cause of global warming. |