Hearthlist Digest #71 - Thursday, December 4, 1997 Re: Global warming - Electric fireplaces by Jim Butchart <[email protected]> Re: Hearthlist Digest #70 - 12/03/97 by Raymond D. Goldman <[email protected]> Re: Hearthlist Digest #70 - Rod Poplarchick's comments by John Crouch <[email protected]>
(back) Subject: Re: Global warming - Electric fireplaces From: Jim Butchart <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 20:09:31 -0400 Ajaenglish <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a few comments and a question. > > The global warming issue. While running this morning, I listened to a talk > show devoted to global warming. How we heat our homes doesn't seem to be an > issue with the general public, but, rather, what we drive. Thank you for your level headed comments. I won't cancel my subscription just yet. No matter how you look at it (or don't look at it) global warming is an issue that over time is going to be something you will not be able to ignore. Here on the west coast we are just getting a taste of what is to come. The ocean water is so warm off San Francisco right now, they are catching Tuna which is unheard of. They are catching Marlin off the Washington coast. The warm ocean water is changing our climate. We expect severe flooding this winter. Last winter we had two century floods within two months of each other. I read one article where it was estimated we could experience 70% more rain than last year! Other parts of the world will have just the opposite effect. They will experience droughts. I don't want to wear the alarmist hat here... but I just want to poke your thought button. Our industry really answered the bell when we were just about knocked out by the EPA regulations back in '85 and '88. We have a better product because of those challenges. We also have very clever pellet stoves and we have beautiful gas stoves that are easy to install and service. I sell way more gas stoves than anything else. We have areas out here where gas is really encouraged over other fuels by regulation. But what are we doing to the atmosphere with all that CO2? Woodstoves, as I understand it, are carbon neutral. The big campaign out here now is to get all the pre-EPA stoves out of use. Do you suppose the campaign in 15 years will be to get all those gas stoves out of use and heat with a renewable resource that is reliable and carbon neutral? Your question about electric fireplaces... look at Dimplex! Very cool. An amazing look. We sold one the first day we put it on the floor. I don't expect any service calls! I'm proud to announce that on my 49th birthday, Thurday, I will begin work at Pilgrim Fireplace Equipment Company as their Information Systems Manager and continue my night job as [email protected]. My wife will continue at the helm with our great staff at Hearth and Color Shop which will soon be known as On Fire! Keep things fresh with a little change! Jim Butchart Santa Rosa, CA [email protected]
(back) Subject: Re: Hearthlist Digest #70 - 12/03/97 From: "Raymond D. Goldman" <[email protected]> (by way of Craig Issod) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 20:09:47 -0400 > >Subject: need a fan for Fire View #230 >From: Rod Poplarchick <[email protected]> >Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 21:01:34 -0400 > >I have a costumer asking if I can get a fan for an FireView mdl# 230 does >anyone know were I can get one or if there is a fan option for this brand of >stove? >Hope to see some of you at the NCHPA meeting Dec. 6 in Fulsom >Topic EPA wood stove change out Never heard of that stove, but know of a source for fan motors... Try Woodman's, get a catalog, 800 522-8216 Raymond D. Goldman With liberty and justice for all who can afford it
(back) Subject: Re: Hearthlist Digest #70 - Rod Poplarchick's comments From: John Crouch <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 20:40:43 -0400 >Hope to see some of you at the NCHPA meeting Dec. 6 in Fulsom >Topic EPA wood stove change out The meeting Rod refers to is in Folsom, California and is for members of Northern California/Nevada HPA who are participating in that organizations Great Stove Changeout (GSC). Many members of this list are familiar with the GSC program (AKA the Clean Heat Woodstove Exchange in the Northeast). This program is always run by the local group and covers a specific area, and a specific time period. In Northern California and Nevada it will run from Jan 11, to Feb 28, 1998. The program is designed to promote the upgrading of old, uncertified stoves to cleaner forms of heat; EPA stoves, pellet stoves, Gas stoves, etc. We plan to kick it off with three major press event over that first week, at Junk yards in Oakland, Sacramento, and Fresno. NCNHPA has an 800 #, and a web site (which is under construction at http://www.woodstove-changeout.org/, and all the other aspects that go with this program. The retailers and the manufacturers split a discount which goes to the consumer only if they surrender their old stove for recycling. The Air Quality agencies help us obtain free press. I realize that some list members in the southeast, or in eastern Canada may not be that familiar with this program but it is an idea the HPA and some of the affiliates have been utilizing since 1990. (The idea originated from Jim Hermann, of The Earth Stove). The goal is to get clean air government agencies to quit beating on us and help us get folks to change out the old dirty burning stoves. We get to sell some units at the same time. We think that this program could move an extra 3-5,000 units in this area, if everyone gets fired up on it. John Crouch, HPA "Fire Works, for all of us"