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by  N.Morgan Although cheap to fuel, wood fireplaces are not the most efficient hearth appliance in the industry.  On the other hand, wood-burning stoves can provide 3x as much heat with 1/3 of the firewood, meaning they are more efficient and offer more heating power than open burning fireplaces. It’s the most reliable, safe, and efficient way to produce heat with wood. So why do so few homes nowadays have them? Masonry stoves have been used for centuries — across Scandinavia, France, Germany and Poland. But they were seldom found in Britain and it’s the early British influence on North America that may account for their relative scarcity in the US. On a fundamental level, a masonry stove is a massive assembly of bricks that is designed to hold and radiate heat produced by a wood fire. When properly designed and built, a masonry stove can continue to radiate heat for up to 20 hours in a well-insulated home after the intense burning of a two-hour fire. On average, though, the ...