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> Traditional fireplaces are immensely inefficient, drawing in 300 cubic feet of air per minute for combustion and expelling up to 85 percent – along with the h
by blueflow 2y ago
> Traditional fireplaces are immensely inefficient, drawing in 300 cubic feet of air per minute for combustion and expelling up to 85 percent – along with the heat – up the chimney.
So the other 45 cubic feet exhaust per minute go where? Into the rooms to suffocate the people there?
- Rooster61 2y agoAlso, isn't that heat only convection? This doesn't seem to take into account the fact that brick or stone fireplaces absorb heat and then radiate it back into the room. It's not all about moving hot air. The fireplace itself gets hot and that feeds back into the room through radiative heat.