Fireplaces? Which type is better for the enviornment? Gas logs? Wood? Electric? and why? 0% 0 Votes

Who cares. Use what is better for you! 0% 0 Votes

gas logs cause fumes to go into the air wood is also bad they had to make some type of fume to use the electric 0% 0 Votes

It%26#039;s kind of a trick question. For the time being, I believe gas is better. It%26#039;s clean, unlike wood, although wood types vary on the byproducts they produce. I equate electricity with dams and there%26#039;s a ton of beautiful valleys in California I%26#039;ll never get to see because they flooded them and called them lakes.

We converted our fireplace to wood when we moved in and now we%26#039;re converting it back to gas. It doesn%26#039;t have the fireplace smell I love so much but if you%26#039;ve ever visited a small community in winter and seen the haze hanging over town, burning wood fires turns into a guilt trip.

But eventually gas supplies will dwindle and be reserved for special uses, so electric would be the way to go. 0% 0 Votes

The real problem is the fireplace. Fireplaces are incredibly inefficient. Although they make feel warm right up close, they do this by sending a great deal of heat right up the chimney, making other corners of the house cold, and forcing the furnace to work extra hard to heat the great outdoors. If you want to have a fireplace for romantic reasons, use an electric one, preferably with fake LED flames.

If you actually want heat, get a woodstove or fireplace insert. Stove/insert technology allows for much more efficient heat transfer, so that you can get heat gains for your effort. What should you burn in your stove/insert? Electricity would be out of the question, since it is a terribly inefficient way to generate heat. Gas stoves are more efficient than heating with electricity, but are much more expensive than wood. If you have an EPA approved woodstove/insert, then emissions from wood are not much more than from gas, and the fuel is much cheaper. Plus, wood fuel is considered by many experts to be carbon neutral since it comes from trees, a carbon sink, and using it creates demand for growing more trees. 0% 0 Votes

Pellet stoves are the best. They can be hooked into an existing forced air unit to heat the whole house, plus you get the added benefit of recycling parts of plants and vegetables that are thought %26quot;useless%26quot;. And the flames are nice to sit by with a cold glass of wine and an interesting book.....or %26quot;friend%26quot;. 0% 0 Votes

Did anyone ever think that a forest fire puts out more smoke then a whole city burning wood stoves, common people pull it together, if you want to have a fire have a fire, I know the tree huggers will be up in arms but these are the same people who would protest people having a campfire in the woods, the smoke oh the humanity. And according to them, we shouldn%26#039;t be in the woods anyway because we are disturbing nature, lmaos 0% 0 Votes

Smart Fire is a company out of Australia that uses Ethanol Alcohol rather than natural gas or wood. Ethanol Alcohol is easy to produce and obtain and burns clean without fumes or the need to vent. 0% 0 Votes

I believe the gas log if it is the %26quot;Ventless%26quot; type. All of the energy is converted into useful heat.
A wood Fireplace sends 80-90 % of the heat up the chimney. An electric power plant normally will only convert about 30-35% of the energy in the fuel to electric power, then there is also some loss in transmission from the plant to your house. 0% 0 Votes