Open fires allows heat to travel into the room.
How do Wood stoves work as they are closed? Doesn’t the heat just go up?
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An open flame has tons of access to oxygen, so it burns through the fuel quickly. A closed flame burns slower, and with less smoke. Yes, a lot of the heat goes out the chimney, but it’s not as much as you think. There is so much heat available that everything is warmed. Also, the metal of the stove stores up a lot of heat and radiates it out slowly.
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