The family I babysit for, uses a pellet stove to heat their house. they keep the heat in their house at something like 63, then the pellet stove heats it the rest of the way. The lady whose kids i babysit for is actually my environmental science teacher from last year, but she isn’t actually very environmentally friendly. they use a lot of paper towels, paper plates, they eat out a lot, etc. So i figure this stove is just another way to save money, and maybe it isn’t that great for the environment. it seems like the emissions would be worse than just using natural gas, but i don’t know (obviously, since i’m asking ). It doesn’t even heat up the house very well, so they end up using a space heater on top of that.

So which is better for the environment?

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