Fireplaces, Heating Stoves, Flues and Chimneys - Gas, pellet, or wood

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AkEvan
09-09-04, 11:52 AM
What is your opinion on which source of heat for a small heating stove is most environmentally responsible? Wood is renewable (barely, it seems) but gas is cleaner burning. Pellets make use of waste wood (I presume?) but there is a cost in processing and shipping and don't they require electricity to feed the pellets?

And an unrelated question, is it possible to get non-fake wood inserts in gas stoves? It is not a wood stove; I don't want to pretend that it is.

Evan