Modern coal stoves that are convenient and clean?

 Curious if it is still possible to heat say a small
cabin or A-frame home with a coal stove

And if there exists any modern hi-tech stoves that are
clean and convenient?

  me@privacy.net wrote:


Yes. You might well find the coal a bit hard to come by tho.


Yes. Some even burn stuff like corn which I consider to be a
complete and utter environmental obscenity, but they are available.

 me@privacy.net wrote:

   I would think so. I have a small coal stove (inner cast iron with
outer shell of enamel, looks like a largish standalone gas heater, maybe
2 1/2' tall x 2' x 18") that has heated a small house with wood scraps.
Coal would have been easier and the energy content of coal is higher.

  Most of the old fireplaces were meant for burning coal, not wood. My
house, has an unused whole house coal furnace, I bet that was nasty
feeding it.


   I would think that a gasification stove would be very doable and
would have very high combustion efficiency. Don't know, though. You
could probably convert a rocket stove to such purposes. Can't be much to
build one, and you control the heat with the fan speed.

   I suppose in some parts of the country there is enough coal that
falls of the coal trains to give you free heat. What is your coal cost?

   Jeff

 

Falls off trains here locally!

 me@privacy.net wrote:

  Now, that's frugal! I like it!


   I've heated with scavenged wood, that while frugal, is still a lot of
work!

http://hearth.com/econtent/index.php/articles/choose_coal/

   Good luck!

   Jeff