| FUEL EFFICIENT | | | | Fill up the hopper, start and go. That's it! No more |
| Wood pellet stoves are a clean burning and | | | | messing around with kindling or chopped wood, |
| efficient source of heat energy. Many wood pellet | | | | stoking, and refilling every couple of hours. You |
| stoves on the market have been rated to have | | | | can even run pellet stoves connected to a |
| burning efficiencies higher that 85% and have no | | | | thermostat to regulate the temperature. Pellet |
| issues meeting stringent local and federal air | | | | stoves offer true heating convenience without |
| quality standards. Compared to wood stoves that | | | | the hassles associated with traditional wood |
| have substantial soot and ash buildup after one | | | | burning stoves. |
| use, pellet stoves can run for weeks at a time | | | | COST EFFECTIVE |
| and still not produce as much ash as one days | | | | Pellet stoves are the most efficient solid fuel |
| use with a woodstove. | | | | source on the planet, and because the pellets are |
| ECO-FRIENDLY | | | | made from a wood waste product the cost is |
| The wood pellets that fuel these stoves are | | | | very inexpensive to run a pellet stove compared |
| made from recycled sawdust that would | | | | to other heating sources. The rising cost of other |
| otherwise be disposed of in landfills or incinerated | | | | energy sources like electricity, oil and natural gas |
| in waste burners typically found at sawmills. Wood | | | | have also added to the gaining popularity of pellet |
| is also a natural renewable resource and by | | | | stoves. |
| selecting wood pellets as a fuel source you are | | | | EASY TO CLEAN |
| helping to recycle forestry related waste | | | | Pellet stoves are simple to clean. Most have |
| byproducts. | | | | simple lift out ash pans that need to be dumped |
| CONSISTENT HEAT SOURCE | | | | every couple of weeks, depending upon your |
| Pellet stoves deliver the wood pellet fuel into the | | | | usage patterns. Furthermore, there is no wood |
| stoves combustible chamber on a regular and | | | | pile mess, bark scraps, or having to sweeping out |
| consistent basis. What this means is that you | | | | piles and piles of ash. |
| have a very steady and consistent source of | | | | [ -- ARTICLE USE POLICY -- You are permitted |
| heat for up to 72 hours before you have to refill | | | | to freely copy and use this article on your |
| the hopper with more wood pellets. No more | | | | website, RSS, or e-zine ONLY IF the article text |
| feeding a woodstove chopped wood every couple | | | | is not changed or altered in any way and the |
| of hours and facing hot and cold heating cycles as | | | | hyperlinks inside the article are active and working. |
| the wood burns strong then dies out. | | | | Sites found violating this reprint condition will be |
| HEATING CONVENIENCE | | | | subject to legal action for copyright infringement. |