[NYFriend]

Don’t care about CO2, Don’t really care about mercury. My electric rates are almost 14 cents/kWh, and my electric bill is about $50-60 per month for a three bedroom house. I have no regular light bulbs, everything is CFL, I have a smallish frige, gas hot water and stove, and a fair number of appliances are energy star (my gas hotwater heater is off the chart on efficiency, according to the energy smart tag).

I am not worried about the environment. I want people to start conserving energy because energy (gas, nat. gas, and oil) are getting expensive, and I think it’s bad for the economy. I like nuke plants, I like like hydro, I want a plug in electric car/hybrid that runs of nuclear power, I want a wood stove (any ideas on how to fit one into a smallish living room?). I want to spend less on energy, without overspending on more efficient stuff.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" I want a wood stove (any ideas on how to fit one into a smallish living room?). "
Take down a wall, lol..
I would like to have a wood stove, can you put coal in them also ?
You are right, the heck with the Global Warming chicken littles, I want to conserve ( hey libs, conservatism is actually a good way to go ) to save on energy bills.
Then again ? when you think about it ? the cost of energy is a direct effect because of the enviro wackos.

[meyer]

Don’t care about CO2, Don’t really care about mercury. My electric rates are almost 14 cents/kWh,...

Same here - I use them in many places, but not because of psuedo-environazi opinions. I use them because I'd rather take that $5-10 per month that I save on my electric bill and put it towards some other, more enjoyable activity. Like eating! :)

[epow]

I want a wood stove (any ideas on how to fit one into a smallish living room?).

I have a fireplace that we use to heat the living and dining rooms, and we like the ambiance of a cozy fireplace on a cold night. But fireplaces are very inefficient home heaters since roughly 75-85% of the heat produced goes up the flue even with the supposedly more efficient all steel types like mine with enclosed chambers for heating air and vents for convection circulation of the heated air.

That's why I want to get a soapstone wood stove like my neighbor uses to heat his entire house, which is larger than mine btw. He says that he can load his stove with wood before retiring for the night and have hot coals in the stove and a comfortably heated house next morning. But my problem is the same as yours, I don't have the space necessary to install a wood stove with sufficient space around it to be safe. I recently talked to a salesman at a local store that sells wood stoves, and he says he can safely fit one into my home. But I doubt that, and anyway his prices are way out of line according to online wood stove sources. A $3000 wood stove would take years of use to save enough money over my present cost for firewood to make it worth the trouble and inconvenience of having another space-taker-upper in our small and crowded living room, especially a very hot space-taker-upper. If I can locate a decent one at about half that price or less I might consider it more seriously.