Northern Ohio farm. Francking land is not far.
I was just in Germany, where the Europeans as so concerned about switching to clean heat and electric. So, I was sitting on the plane and it so happened that the system designer and manager for the northern Germany power grid was sitting next to me. So we were talking, I guess the German government spent millions switching and subsidizing everyone over there to change to solar power and gas heat. Now 100% natural gas comes from the Russians, why are cutting supply because that is what they do time to time. As for electric an average german house hold 10 years ago paid E300 for power. Now that it is all solar, last year's stats were E287 per house hold. So, he said why do you think that it only dropped E13? That's right taxes. To pay for all the government subsidies to switching to solar, the state had to apply massive taxes to everyone. So, now even if you are not using power, you have to pay E190 per month of taxes.
Also, now they have windmills for power out at sea and on land. Because there is such a fluctuation in wind speed, their power grids are getting overloaded 3-6 times a month he said. They have been giving free power to many factories at night so they can take the load off of the lines. So, now they spent all this money to go green, and now they have to give power away for free. And in return the companies since they get power for free at night (some at least) are now have more night shifts so now workers have to work 10pm-6am.
How screwed up is that? And that is the model country for some governments.
Now, I was in Russia last year too. I go yearly for charity work at an orphanage. They heat all the buildings for the orphanage with boilers. They have an awesome system. They have wood, coal, propane, oil boilers all next to each other separated by brick walls. They burn what ever is cheaper. No taxes, no permits, no nothing. They heat the entire orphanage for 300 kids for about $80 per month.
I grew up with Russian "peace" time boilers in Eastern Europa. They were from before WWII; peace time. They are still running them over there.
I modified my NCB250 coal according to the set up I am used to. I get at least 20% more out of my boiler, but I had to make some modification to the insulation and some to the fire box. I think the boilers sold now days are good, but lot of them leak a lot of heat.
I use the laser temp gun to check for leaks and insulate it. I put fire bricks on the top of the boiler for insulation, and I have a steal place in front of the stack inside the fire box so less heat runs out the stack. Works pretty good for me.
Most Russian boilers have a double door which I like. The inside had fire brick lining, and another insulated one outside of that. I like that set up, because no creosote builds up around the seal of the outside door that messes up the seal. Plus even more heat stays in with double doors. My NCB door is insulted I guess, but it still reads 95F on the outside. It could be better I think, so I am adding a second door this spring inside the fire box, like I am used to. NCB also stands on legs and looses a ton of heat to the ground. I put bricks all around the boiler, and I noticed last year when I did that that when the boiler is in idle even in -25F wind chill, the water temp stays the same for hours. I am 130 yards from the house, 9 feet deep lines. Before I had the bricks in idle my boiler temp dropped about 1F every 20 min in -25F.
Anyway, that's what I have as for coal and wood combo. Good luck with it.
Oh I forgot, western Europeans got rid of all their fireplaces when it all went green. Guess what is one of the biggest export items in Russia and Scandinavia right now to Western Europe? That's right. Fireplaces and stoves. People want to go back to burning wood and coal, which is against our clean air act. Messed up ,my friend.
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