Even after they gave up coal in favor of oil, they installed a wood-burning furnace alongside the oil furnace in an attempt to keep costs down. (They lived on a farm, where firewood was free.) ...

Oil furnaces are somewhat less expensive than an equivalent natural gas furnace. But oil furnaces also need a fuel storage tank, so installed cost can sometimes be higher with oil than natural gas.

Outdoor wood-fired furnaces can be a cheap and efficient way to heat the home. ... Cruny used to spend about $2500 for fuel for his indoor oil furnace during a typical winter.

Using oil heat to warm my home is not exactly in line with my beliefs. Granted, I have only lived in my home for just over a year now and have been conducting research on alternatives since I ...

A new outdoor wood furnace can cost between $6,600 and $10,000 once fully installed.

About 25,000 wood-burning furnaces are sold every year in the United States. Reaching even a 10% market share would have a huge impact for Lamppa — and Tower, Lamppa said.

Don’t ban outdoor wood furnaces [Page 1, Dec. 10., “State Tries To Clear The Air”]. Wood, unlike oil, is a renewable resource that is plentiful in our area. Its use as a home-heating source ...

Restricted in some big cities as smoke-belching smog machines and targeted by the federal Environmental Protection Agency for tough new emissions regulations, wood stoves and furnaces have been ...

Boilers and furnaces use fuel or electricity to heat a building, but they work differently. Here's what you need to know about them.

In an ideal world, with enough dry wood and state-of-the-art, clean-burning furnaces to ...

If 10 percent of New Hampshire's residents burned wood pellets instead of heating oil, the particulates could create some visibility issues, but would not alter air quality that much, he said.

For the first time in three years of trying, legislation to tighten regulations on outdoor wood furnaces has passed a chamber of the legislature. The Senate passed and sent to the House an amended ...