Looking for a Wood Stove Discount – Check out Modern EPA Fireplace Inserts

Find a cheap fireplace that still has outstanding quality isn’t as hard to find as you might think. Modern natural gas fireplace with and EPA sticker will not only give you the best heat output, cleanest emissions and the best fuel efficiency, your also looking at a tax rebate just for purchasing one. Such sites as choosefireplacesandstoves.com show you a list of EPA qualifying stoves that will get you tax credits, or you can log onto the EPA Energy Star website and see how the program works for yourself.

The incentive for purchasing more efficient Napoleon gas fireplaces come from several well established facts about natural gas fireplace and burning propane in general. Burning gas as a fuel source has the lowest release of carbon dioxide than any other fuel we burn off on a daily basis. The natural gas we use heat each room of our houses over and over again when we are only using a few of them only contribute to the large cloud of green house gases hanging in our atmosphere that will supposedly cause the earth to heat up, the polar ice caps to melt and cause extreme weather conditions.

The amazing thing about this is that there has always been tons of water vapor, CO2 and other green houses gases in our atmosphere, put there from our planet from things such as volcanoes release from plant life and oceans. The CO2 level in our atmosphere has fluctuated every few hundred thousand years or so and was supposed to peak in the 1960’s then begin to drop. However since the industrial boom of the 1700’s and mans contributions to green house gases (however small they might be) the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere still hasn’t stopped rising since the 1960’s making it the largest amount of CO2 in our atmosphere having ever been present, according to ice samples that go way back into earth’s history. Burning wood is just a small step in not only saving on the cost of your gas bill, but saving the emissions thereof as well.

The serious problem that has been noted with burning wood, especially in more urban areas is the air pollution from the smoke. Smoke is essentially unburned wood particles being carried away in hot gases. To curve this problem Napoleon gas fireplaces that have better design can be used to burn more without using wood, hence giving you more heat and better fuel efficiency. A modern natural gas fireplace also has natural convection vent designs to better help heat an area. This design was first used by Benjamin Franklin in his fireplace insert design – The Franklin Stove. Modern natural gas fireplace inserts might take some time to get used to the operation, as they require a few extra steps to make sure the fire is burning at the highest efficiency. To basic designs are used in fireplace inserts for cleaner burns, catalytic and non-catalytic.