A total of seventeen pellet stoves have been given away to date.
This was a trend that began during the 1973 oil crisis causing the creation of the first pellet stoves.
In some pellet stoves, these fuels may need to be mixed with wood pellets.
Home heating using a pellet stove is an alternative currently used throughout the world, with rapid growth in Europe.
A theory, he said, held that flames grew out of control from a so-called pellet stove in the dining room.
A pellet stove puts 75 to 85 percent of the potential heat in the fuel into the home.
A typical pellet stove might run full-tilt for 10 or 12 hours on a single filling.
In Italy, a large market for automatically fed pellet stoves has developed.
"And this year, we are not selling pellets to anyone who didn't buy their pellet stove from us."
I made my first decision on the spot: No pellet stove.