[Greenbuilding] Distibution and radiant heat and Morse stove solution

[Tedd Weyman]

I have to chime in. This Australian  marketing gimmick by Morse stoves, 
claims of heating large areas including cathedral ceiling houses with "radiant" 
heat from a single point (no matter what the fuel) is just that: a gimmick.  Its 
plain and simple false advertising and taking advantage of hopeful and 
uneducated consumers.

Large spaces, multiple rooms and high air volume spaces are heated by convection 
or other more systematic heat distribution systems .  If you have a single point 
radiant source hot enough to warm you 10 feet from the source, you burn up 3 
feet from the source. No distribution system means spot heating and 
wasted energy. Old fashioned oil burning stoves with air or hot water 
distribution systems are a lot greener and more efficient than a single point 
super stove hot super big wood stove.

That building department did not do you any favours; in fact they misled you by 
not making sure you understood heating distribution and control principles.

Tedd W

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