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Energy Saver: Heating Combustion
There are four basic things that can be done to reduce energy directly at your heating boiler, furnace or wood burner. You can assess your equipment situation. Maybe it is time to just do an upgrade to a high energy efficient version. You can check fuel-to-air ratio and flame efficiency by measuring combustion byproducts. You can upgrade your combustion air path. A fouled heat exchanger can be cleaned. And numerous other tips and tricks will be discussed here.
For heating, you need to use some kind of energy. Contemporary energy choices are combustion energy, electrical energy, geothermal energy or other alternative energy sources. I'll discuss combustion options in this article. Other options will be discussed separately. For combustion, the needed heat can ...