On basic stove technology.I was never a big fan of open chimney fire places. It's a lot for their inefficiency, it's more for risk of lighting your house on fire.
I've installed many wood stoves and built chimneys for them over the years.
This was the last stove i managed to get for free for my landlord. And it's just a classic wood burner in all respects, but in a small size.
Wood stoves have controllable air flow on the stove itself, and the dampener close to the stove in the chimney; wood stoves in general are designed to radiate heat. Chimneys i find really only heat the immediate room with most of the heat and smoke going up the chimney sucking a bunch of cold air through any holes in the house to feed itself.
Aside from the chimney tangent gets down to one of the recent past upgrades to woodstoves. The ones with catalytic converters. Extract more heat from the smoke! I thought i was on board until i found out i can destroy the catalytic converter burning anything with colored ink and any type of glue (that rules out almost all fire starters). That, and getting such a stove up and going properly meant getting the catalytic converter hot enough (pain in my dick). I hate catalytic converter stoves because they take too long to get going without snuffing out your fire if you put the catalytic converter into use slightly prematurely, or destroying your catalytic converter because you had a bunch of totino's pizza boxes around and felt like you'd start the fire with. So yes, i downgraded my old place in north pole alaska with a less advanced stove just to have a much easier time. It used less wood, i could burn all paper and wood products or anything in it, burned just as long as the old stove, and put out just as much heat.
Ballot measure 2Most stove regulations would indeed change the market for wood stoves which is fine. All the other wood stoves would most likely be grandfathered in (this is very likely). If that isn't offered, then a trade your old stove for new stove might happen (but, this is unlikely). Any locations that demand you upgrade your own stove on your own dollar, or fine you for not is bastardly and doesn't serve the people or the community.
A similar thing was about to happen in north pole alaska. It was mostly prompted by thinking the city's air was too polluted; compared to the rest of america, alaska's air is pretty darn clean. The second thing that prompted it was the local wood pellet factory (this is my opinion here, but i bet it's not far off that
superior pellet fuels liked the idea of getting rich fast, and that they had a hand to play in this). North pole government was trying to go down the road of sending people to your door so they can test your chimney and then fine you if not within regulations. Too bad almost everyone in that community burns wood. Like nuke pointed out, just about everybody in alaska burns wood. If you live in alaska and you don't burn wood, you live in an apartment building, or you're retarded. In winter when the power goes out for hours and your lovely wood pellet stove (electronically powered, most if not all are) and your toyostove can't provide you heat. You're effectively ****ed. I hated living in places where the wood heat was electronicly assisted. Because when the power goes out, you're ****ed, and it means the people who put that heating system there were morons.
Great defunct website on the
north star boroughs ballot measure 2.
