This is a pretty neat idea - why recycle when you can heat your house with your old newspaper.
Turn old newspapers into fireplace "logs" Save money on wood and put those stacks of old newspapers to good use. Simply fill with dampened sheets of paper, press out excess water and let dry. Tightly-formed briquettes light quickly.
Link: Fireplace Brick Maker
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dark wrote,
This is a *very* stupid idea! The burning of paper (with the ink or other printing substance) releases considerable amount of pollution in the air. Also paper burns really fast producing very low amount of heat.
Recycling is a *much* better because of the lower negative environmental impact of the process.
Link | December 9th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Ruffe wrote,
I completely agree.
Link | December 9th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
RGS wrote,
But just to start a fire, using one of the paper blocks won’t hurt. Better than using firelighters!
Link | December 9th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
The Newspaper Brick Maker - SlashGear wrote,
[...] least it’s fairly inexpensive to try, if it doesn’t work you’re only out $29.95. Turn Paper in Fireplace Bricks [via random good [...]
Link | December 10th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Tarmo Toikkanen wrote,
My grand-mother had a device for making paper brickettes for burning in the 50s in Finland. So nothing new here.
Link | December 11th, 2007 at 9:58 am
light wrote,
dark: You’ve missed something here: by compressing the newspapers together tightly enough (water helps with the binding) the “brick” will burn quite slowly. In fact, burn times are comparable to those of a standard log.
The ink is usually petroleum-based, which aids in the initial ignition.
Old tech though, soaked newspapers have been used in fireplaces (at once upon a time, soaked money/cash in post-war Germany) for quite a while now…
Link | February 21st, 2008 at 1:46 pm