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Doing a search for heaters and found this.....not what I am looking for but
interesting idea. Anyone heard of them?? Greenhouse Heating Greenheat are a company who have produced two new products to heat the greenhouse, The Greenheat Organic Greenhouse Heater and Fuel. The heater is fuelled by Greenheat's organic fuel gel made from sugar cane and they claim produces no smelly toxic waste gases. They state that upon burning the gel fuel actually emits plant food (carbon dioxide and water vapour). The Heater retails at around £60 and the 5 litre fuel refill retails at £7.99 providing over 65 hours of burn time. Contact Greenheat, 87 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3RD. Tel: 0117 923 2300 email: web: www.greenheat.co.uk -- David Hill Abacus Nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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"david" writes:
Greenhouse Heating The Heater retails at around £60 and the 5 litre fuel refill retails at £7.99 providing over 65 hours of burn time. By a quick calculation you could run a 2KW electric heater continuously for the same money, and it would cost less up front as well. An electric heater would probably do a better job in fact as it could be thermostatically controlled. Anthony |
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![]() "david" wrote in message ... Doing a search for heaters and found this.....not what I am looking for but interesting idea. Anyone heard of them?? Greenhouse Heating Greenheat are a company who have produced two new products to heat the greenhouse, The Greenheat Organic Greenhouse Heater and Fuel. The heater is fuelled by Greenheat's organic fuel gel made from sugar cane and they claim produces no smelly toxic waste gases. They state that upon burning the gel fuel actually emits plant food (carbon dioxide and water vapour). The Heater retails at around £60 and the 5 litre fuel refill retails at £7.99 providing over 65 hours of burn time. Contact Greenheat, 87 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3RD. Tel: 0117 923 2300 email: web: www.greenheat.co.uk -- David Hill Abacus Nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk Burning any fuel produces carbon dioxide and water vapour, but in the winter you don't need excess co2 and you definitely don't want the extra water vapour. -- Art Swap seeds and plants and visit many specialist garden forums at Garden Web http://www.gardenweb.com My Garden Web exchange page http://www.gardenweb.com/members/exch/art1952 European Pages http://www.uk.gardenweb.com/ |
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![]() david wrote: Doing a search for heaters and found this.....not what I am looking for but interesting idea. Anyone heard of them?? Greenhouse Heating Greenheat are a company who have produced two new products to heat the greenhouse, The Greenheat Organic Greenhouse Heater and Fuel. The heater is fuelled by Greenheat's organic fuel gel made from sugar cane and they claim produces no smelly toxic waste gases. They state that upon burning the gel fuel actually emits plant food (carbon dioxide and water vapour). The Heater retails at around £60 and the 5 litre fuel refill retails at £7.99 providing over 65 hours of burn time. It sounds suspiciously like a solid version of snake oil to separate green envirowhiners from their cash. Compare it against either a standard paraffin greenhouse heater or better still an electric fan. Anything that burns in the closed environment of the greenhouse will potentially emit nasty CO and other bad things like soot if there is inadequate ventilation or the burner is incorrectly adjusted. The water and CO2 emitted with it burning correctly are not that useful in mid winter anyway. Making enviro fuels from sugar cane or corn is a joke sponsored by agribusiness lobby groups. It consumes more energy end to end than burning oil would. Regards, Martin Brown |
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Martin Brown wrote in message ...
david wrote: Doing a search for heaters and found this.....not what I am looking for but interesting idea. Anyone heard of them?? Greenhouse Heating Greenheat are a company who have produced two new products to heat the greenhouse, The Greenheat Organic Greenhouse Heater and Fuel. The heater is fuelled by Greenheat's organic fuel gel made from sugar cane and they claim produces no smelly toxic waste gases. They state that upon burning the gel fuel actually emits plant food (carbon dioxide and water vapour). The Heater retails at around £60 and the 5 litre fuel refill retails at £7.99 providing over 65 hours of burn time. It sounds suspiciously like a solid version of snake oil to separate green envirowhiners from their cash. Compare it against either a standard paraffin greenhouse heater or better still an electric fan. Anything that burns in the closed environment of the greenhouse will potentially emit nasty CO and other bad things like soot if there is inadequate ventilation or the burner is incorrectly adjusted. The water and CO2 emitted with it burning correctly are not that useful in mid winter anyway. Making enviro fuels from sugar cane or corn is a joke sponsored by agribusiness lobby groups. It consumes more energy end to end than burning oil would. Regards, Martin Brown Apologies if this appears twice, Google is playing up -- A sure way which I use is simply to buy renewable electricity. About 10-20 quid a year extra for a family bill (although for me it was free). Warwick Dumas "If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway" - the late Joe Strummer |
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