carbon neutral

[MaryB]

Oh and auto ignition on a pellet stove really isn't needed. I put about a cup of pellets in the firebox, squirt some 90% rubbing alcohol over them(to much and you lose arm hair...) let it sit a minute then light it. Close door, turn stove on to start up blowers. No expensive fire starter gimmicks needed. Ignitor in my stove quit a week after warranty expired. It isn't an expensive item but it also doesn't run off DC so I never bothered replacing it. Only runs when I have 120 volts plugged into the 12 volt power supply inside the stove which is rare. I have way to many power outages so just leave it on the battery bank.

[Battis]

What about the different brands of stoves? Like I said, I heard that Harmon is the best. What about other brands?

[MaryB]

My stove is from American Energy Systems and has been reliable. Mid range in price. Harmon is near the top price wise then there are the import stoves at the bottom that might burn your house down... I don't care which brand you buy, some tinkering is needed to get them running right!

[alfadan]

I like my Englander NC30. Good capacity and no fancy catalists or anything.

[popper]

You could invest with Al Gores carbon neutral fund - similar to the bitcoin exchange idea. But Al will get rich.

[10x]

You could invest with Al Gores carbon neutral fund - similar to the bitcoin exchange idea. But ONLY Al will get rich.

Corrected that for you

There is a carbon credits scheme where the brokers are getting rich.

[JSnover]

At one time it was accepted as fact that oil came from the decomposition of ancient living things also. That has since turned out to be false. Along with some other ideas such as a flat earth and the earth being the center of this planetary system.
I wonder what other long-held ideas will turn out to be false.

As I understand it there are two processes by which crude is produced. One is biomass decomposition and the other takes place deeper within the earth, which explains why a lot of dry oil reserves have been able to refill themselves over time. I clipped an article from The Wall Street Journal about it years ago but can't find it now.
Both processes have been duplicated in laboratories.

[Shurshot2]

Look into the sabatier process to digest the co2.