Well, much has changed for me the last few months, left my job in the Colorado oilfield to take a job welding near my home town in "da UP". Im home, I'm making good money, I sign on my first house in about 7 hours, I couldn't be happier. So with all this I'm gonna build my first permy, got that pretty much planned out in my head, and im pretty set on building a small wood stove for heat. I was thinking of venting the inlet to the outside, so it would draw air from outside, burn it, and vent back outside (through the chimney). the theory is this is more efficient as you aren't consuming the air you've already heated. SO the question is, would this defeat the "dry heat" everyone talks about with wood, by not consuming moist air in the shack, or is there something more going on with open flame propane IE moisture being released in the chemical reaction of burning the propane?
