Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Fire-Breathing Dragon

My wife runs a miniatures museum on site, and one of the buildings featured is a Wizards' Academy. It is guarded by a dragon in the basement. He's there to look after the treasure, and keep the tax inspectors away, of course, but just for fun I tell the younger visitors that he's for the central heating.

The real fire-breathing dragon on site is the wood-burnining boiler manufactured by Heizomat, which really is used for the central heating. It is powered by shredded wood chips which are delivered by a giant lorry into a big (30M cubed) bunker. About 33% of mainland France is given to forest, and wood-fired heating is encouraged by the government here as sustainable and carbon-neutral (over the lifetime of the tree)

It has a maximum power output of 100KW, and can heat the two gîte buildings and also the pool, even in the depths of Winter. I gave it a good clean-out today so that it can perform reliably over the Summer period, heating the pool and the water for washing.





The fire-breathing dragon














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3 comments:

  1. Lia13 May 2009 at 04:48

    Hi, just spent a happy time reading through the whole of your blog.

    You have the life, I can only dream of, lucky lucky you, mind you I can also see how much hard work has gone into your lifestyle, My hats off to you both.

    I love the humour in your postings, makes you all the more human and warm for it.

    The dragon in our house is me, lol.

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  2. Mark In Mayenne13 May 2009 at 22:43

    You are too kind, thank you :)

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  3. Helen29 October 2009 at 13:20

    It's the Dragon! Now, I understand. OH, I WANT ONE. (I should have read this post before I started my line of questioning!)

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