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Over the years humanity has slowly moved away from the tried and true methods of living; to a new supermarket, energy dependence. It's so weird from the way I grew up. With family members getting together to can food for the winter. Chopping firewood, raising our own chickens. I admit it's messy but this is the only lifestyle that will survive. I feel terrible for the people in Texas today. Yet I am justified in the fact that I turned an old water heater into a wood stove and so many other things I've had the urge to do lately. Stay safe folks and find ways to become less needy on a dying infrastructure. Retarded policies are kicking liberals in the ass but their not smart enough to feel shame. Do not become a statistic.

Over the years humanity has slowly moved away from the tried and true methods of living; to a new supermarket, energy dependence. It's so weird from the way I grew up. With family members getting together to can food for the winter. Chopping firewood, raising our own chickens. I admit it's messy but this is the only lifestyle that will survive. I feel terrible for the people in Texas today. Yet I am justified in the fact that I turned an old water heater into a wood stove and so many other things I've had the urge to do lately. Stay safe folks and find ways to become less needy on a dying infrastructure. Retarded policies are kicking liberals in the ass but their not smart enough to feel shame. Do not become a statistic.

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[–] • 2 pts

I don't know if I'd call them efficient, unless you have an enclosed shell with circulation around the firebox. That would be the only way you'd really get any use out of one, but that ruins the effect of having a fireplace.

[–] • 1 pt

Well, I got a 35 year old fireplace, sucks the heat right out, inserts are much better. I havent kept up but know some of them suck air from outside instead of inside, and have heat exchangers.

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The kind that bring in air from outside are really more of a open-face woodstove. I guess if you want to call that a fireplace...

The one in my folk's home, built in 77, is very pretty - it was a locally cut sandstone face that was supposed to be the model for the builder (that went out of business shortly after) but it's totally useless because it does the same thing - sucks the heat right out of the house and up the chimney. We used a Wonder Coal stove vented into the chimney for many years before replacing it with a whole-house model and vent pipe/registers.