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Reviewing the Wood Burning Boiler Features

Back at the Cobb Hill co-housing community, Bob meets up with builder Kevin O'Hara who shows Bob the enormous Garn wood gasifying boiler that has just arrived. The boiler heats hot water by burning the particulate in a second chamber after the wood has been burned. The hot water will be sent throughout the co-housing for heat. Community members will manually feed the lumber which will be harvested right on the property as fuel for the boiler. The individual residences will be tied together with Ecoflex insulated underground pipe that runs throughout the project. Each pod (there are three in the community) will have its own backup gas boiler for when the temperature really drops.

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Reviewing the Wood Burning Boiler Features

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" So Kevin this enormous affair is going to provide heat for all of the units in the whole compound right through it what's it called the garden. Would testifying. Garner is the company that makes it yeah now how old is this technology. Well I know they've had there that are boilers on the market for sixteen years I think the -- is a little older and not much okay and it's electrifying. Boiler because it does want it to justifying -- doesn't mind. It'll it'll it'll. Burn the particular it'll and a second chamber after the wood is burned. They'll take the particular particulates and the smoke and and burn that again about 2000 degrees swap that would -- its own waste right but you're heating water that's right OK sending it all the buildings in the in the there's a series of coils in between the two chambers that's -- All right let's take a look at it from the other side."

" Now Kevin this must be a pretty heavy affair. You know what is 6600. Pounds them heating and cooling water wouldn't when he -- So there will be an automatic. Feed of water obviously but what about feeding it with the combustible with the lumber. -- don't have to manually done by the co housing community members and you can feed logs in there -- three -- four feet -- almost three -- Now will all of this combustible lumber timber. Be harvested on the property -- that's their plan. But the plan is to do sustainable harvests of the wood -- exactly. And you you know he's -- the use of hot water from this boiler to all the individual. Residences. Well they'll be tied up will be connected to this Ecoflex insulated. Underground pipe that runs throughout being. Project. Basically it's. And feed and a return -- and return circulating hot water. Through each unit. Each -- there's three pods here he's probably have a backup yes boiler. Room to room temperature."

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