Comments on: A conversation with Bob Jennings about new ways to heat with wood http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/19/a-conversation-with-bob-jennings-about-new-ways-to-heat-with-wood/ Strategies for Internet citizens Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:40:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/19/a-conversation-with-bob-jennings-about-new-ways-to-heat-with-wood/#comment-126622 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:43:20 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1076#comment-126622 > here’s the address of my humble blog
> http://blog.sleepersriveralternative.com

Subscribed. Good luck with your adventure. You might want to hook up with Jock Gill at some point as well, he’s thinking along similar lines:

http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/09/16/jock-gill-on-energy-information-technology-networks-markets-and-society-part-1/

]]> By: Karl http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/19/a-conversation-with-bob-jennings-about-new-ways-to-heat-with-wood/#comment-126614 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:18:20 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1076#comment-126614 Sorry, I was actually leaving the comment for the other post about pellets. My comments were discarded and after all that typing, I couldn’t let it go to waste.
Cheers,
p.s. very interesting thread by the way.

]]> By: Karl http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/19/a-conversation-with-bob-jennings-about-new-ways-to-heat-with-wood/#comment-126613 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:14:25 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1076#comment-126613 It’s true, using oil is like a thrill ride at an amusement park. One where you’re not sure how it is going to end, but you know eventually you will have to get off.
People are tired of the ride and realize they need to make a change. I’ve jumped on board the pellet wagon and I also wonder how this ride will end. I just became certified to install and service pellet stoves and I’m manufacturing pellets. The trick to winning people over is not just to make pellets cheaper than oil but also as easy. When harvested and manufactured correctly, ie. not leveling the woods, pellets can have some pretty saucy words tagged onto them- clean, efficient, renewable, local, sustainable. Check out my plan, I’d love to figure out the delivery system, I’m hoping to spend my summer building silos and delivering pellets. here’s the address of my humble blog http://blog.sleepersriveralternative.com

]]> By: Jeremy http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/19/a-conversation-with-bob-jennings-about-new-ways-to-heat-with-wood/#comment-126558 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:17:21 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1076#comment-126558 Ontario coal-fired power plant to switch to biomass

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2009/01/21/green-energy.html?ref=rss

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/19/a-conversation-with-bob-jennings-about-new-ways-to-heat-with-wood/#comment-126551 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:11:37 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1076#comment-126551 > it was a plenty good improvement

Here’s how John Leeke does it:

http://historichomeworks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=193

]]> By: Tom Passin http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/19/a-conversation-with-bob-jennings-about-new-ways-to-heat-with-wood/#comment-126549 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:55:50 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1076#comment-126549 Jon, toward the end of the podcast, you mention a removable interior storm window consisting of a frame with plastic stretched across it.

I made a few of these in the 1970′s for my home in Ohio. Just like you, I got sick of taping or stapling a plastic sheet to the windows. I had been making a few of my own picture frames anyway, and one day I got the idea to make a removable storm window.

It wasn’t quite as easy as I had expected. The old windows had slightly inconsistent dimensions, making it hard to get a really good fit, and the frame was so large that it tended to bow in the middle from the tension of the stretched plastic. (I shrank the plastic pane just for a better appearance).

It didn’t seal as well as ones I taped right to the window frame, but it was a plenty good improvement over not using anything.

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