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Scrutiny for Wood Boilers (New Hampshire)
The Union Leader ^ | 9/7/2008 | MICHAEL COUSINEAU

Posted on 09/07/2008 6:23:48 AM PDT by Aglooka

Customers at Northwood Power Equipment are hoping to get their outdoor wood heaters delivered before a new state law bans the selling of some models starting Jan. 1.

"I don't think we're going to be taking orders anymore," said store manager Rick Devoid. "We're getting close to the deadline. Right now, it's a November-December delivery date."

A state law passed in July set the Jan. 1 ban for selling outdoor wood-fired hydronic boilers that don't meet federal air pollution standards.

(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: environment; environmentalism; nannystate; newhampshire; nh
Environmentalists want all wood stoves and fireplaces banned. This is another step in that direction.
1 posted on 09/07/2008 6:23:48 AM PDT by Aglooka
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To: Aglooka

So instead of efficient stoves with secondary burning and catalytic converters, we will have to build stoves from 50 gallon drums. Then they will come look for chimneys so we will remove our safe chimneys. They will ban chain saws except for licensed arborists, put tracking devices on wooden pallets, etc. I don’t know how they will track the deadfall and handsaws.


2 posted on 09/07/2008 6:31:40 AM PDT by palmer (Some third party malcontents don't like Palin because she is a true conservative)
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To: palmer
No crazed environmental zealot I, but have you ever observed on of these things in operation ?
3 posted on 09/07/2008 6:33:26 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Aglooka

Yes, they want us to use Arab oil to pollute the air so the money can go to building more mosques and madrassas in the U.S.

To the flaming Maoists masquerading as “environmentalists”, the violence and destruction promoted by Islamic lunatics is essential to stripping our civilization to bare metal so they can build it in the Maoist image from the bottom up.

Right out of Mao’s book, “The Thoughts of Chairman Mao”, which wis the bible for SDS, Weathermen, Weather Underground, and Symbionese Liberation Army.

The agents used to dissolve the culture will then be themselves liquidated when they are no longer needed. They will just be in the way.

Stalin called these agents of civil destruction, “Useful Idiots”.


4 posted on 09/07/2008 6:34:52 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Aglooka

...we have a wood fired furnace with a oil burner add on...if I’m gone, the oil burner kicks in...we’re not entirely free of oil costs but can reduce it substancially by burning wood....we can only do this because we own a 24 acre mountain hollow....if I had to buy wood I would seriously question the cost effectiveness.


5 posted on 09/07/2008 6:41:18 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: Aglooka

...one thing I forgot to mention....our unit is in the basement and has it’s own 2.5 story chimney which draws strong...one big advantage of the outdoor units is no danger of a chimney fire threatening your house....the disadvantage is you have to trudge out there in the cold to tend your fire...and if you don’t tend your fire right they’ll produce more smoke....I wouldn’t want to live in suburbia amongst a bunch of outdoor units.


6 posted on 09/07/2008 6:52:33 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

no, is it nasty? It is still better than a forest fire.


7 posted on 09/07/2008 7:43:22 AM PDT by palmer (Some third party malcontents don't like Palin because she is a true conservative)
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To: Aglooka

I’ve got a welder, and all the steel I need to make my own, epa regulations be damned. I’m pretty sure we granite staters will be able to get around these foolish regulations. The only people that will be affected are the massholes that move here to get away from the tax-confiscatory mess they created in taxachusetts. Most indigenous granite staters simply laugh about there being wood stove regulations. Come November, the idiots that pushed through this legislation will not be lauhing, however, you can be assured that we won’t tolerate their attempt to regulate us. NH is one of the last bastions of freedom in the country.....we are the only state not required to use seat belts (unless you’re under 18). The overnement threatened to take away our highway money, if we didn’t pass seatbelt laws, so we told emm to shoe it. We simply raised the tolls on the federal interstate that ran through NH, and more than made up for their federal highway money. Live free or die, isn’t just a catchy phrase up here. No sales tax, or state income tax either.....


8 posted on 09/07/2008 8:33:31 AM PDT by krogers58
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NH is one of the last bastions of freedom in the country...

It will only remain that way if you start denying entry to the Massholes and other undesirables moving in...

9 posted on 09/07/2008 8:56:00 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

environmental zealot
1. No to everything
2.God Gore is always right
3.Hate America first


10 posted on 09/07/2008 9:19:28 AM PDT by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Ever observed one of these things in operation? Yes, I have. Several neighbors, including my brother, run ‘em. My own household heat comes from a woodstove with plenum and ducting added over it, which makes it into a rudimentary forced-air furnace. Have you questions about wood heat?


11 posted on 09/07/2008 1:59:37 PM PDT by flowerplough ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: flowerplough

We have a Lopi stove and three or four years worth of wood mostly split and stacked. With about ten acres of oak, we have wood to burn.


12 posted on 09/08/2008 8:21:58 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Wood burning is one of the solutions to the energy problems. It’s reasonably priced, provides exceptional heat, and renewable.


13 posted on 09/08/2008 8:26:07 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

It warms you twice.


14 posted on 09/08/2008 8:28:18 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
It warms you twice.

It warms me 3 times, the third being when I pay for some home heating oil that I "mix" into my total heating strategy......I get a warm fuzzy feeling knowing how much money I am saving from the alterative of heating 100% with oil.

15 posted on 09/08/2008 8:33:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro
When we built our new house in ‘02, I specified a ground source heat pump that does amazingly well. Cheap heat and essentially free AC. It has four 200 foot wells under the driveway connected to a heat exchanger inside. The Lopi is almost superfluous. At $4/gallon, X grade N2 fuel oil is over $25 per MM BTUs.
16 posted on 09/08/2008 8:48:38 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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