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There's no heat like wood heat. Talk to people who have wood-burning stoves and that's what you'll hear time and again. "It's comfortable heat," says Bert Beatty of Paxico, Kan. "It warms your bones." ...

"Typically in an open fireplace, you're losing 90 percent of the heat up the flue," Biswell said. That translates to 10 percent efficiency. By comparison, he said, older wood stoves are 50 percent to ...