50 face cord is a lot, but not unbelievable if it's a big house with a lousy stove and an owner that like to run the temp at 75 of so. A face cord is 4x4x8 foot, 1/3 of a full cord. It's not even a full pickup box full of wood. We go through the equivalent of a face cord about every day and a half in cold weather. Just the nature of the furnace we have and an old farm house. 50 face cord is only a little under 17 full cord, and we got through more than 10 full cord in a bad winter. So while it may be a lot to someone living in Mo. or Indiana, it's not a lot really.
Why don't we all have super efficient European style boilers? Because the cost a heck of a lot of money, that's why! We currently have a forced hot air wood furnace in the basement. We'd really like to have an outdoor boiler and either radiant or baseboard hot water. I figure, conservatively, it's going to run me between $12 and 15K to get a boiler and run the lines through my house and I might be guessing low. If we go with the radiant flooring with the built in tubing (we need new floors too) it's a lot more. A new OWB can be had for $8-14K if you shop around. A used one is going to be $5-8K. Now, I see online prices for gassification boilers in the $8K range, but a friend just put a Scandinavian unit in at his place and has over $20K in it for the boiler alone. So I don't know for sure where the prices are, but my understanding and gut tell me a gassifier is 1/4 to 1/2 more expensive. One blog by a gassifier advocate says $12-23K for a total installation of a small unit. Regardless, a $12-20K investment is a BIG amount of money to a lot of us out here. Add in the permits and local/state requirements, the almost certain problems that crop up surrounding any installation, the possibility that the company will go belly up tomorrow and leave you without access to parts as has happened many, many times...it's a gamble compared to known technology and established companies. I'd love a super efficient boiler, but I'd also love to be 25 again and rich!
Just because Igor or whoever can heat his tiny Scandinavian house on some crazy small amount of wood over a winter does not in any way, shape or form mean everybody can do that same thing.
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