Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
Geoffrey Johnson was merely responding to a small domestic crisis when he invented what may turn out to be a revolution in the pellet stove industry.
Seven or eight years ago Johnson, now 61, bought a pellet stove for the home where he and his wife, Jean Hoxter, lived in Redmond, Wash.
“We’d had a wood stove that the kids used to haul the wood in for and chop…