[Greenbuilding] (Greenbuilding): Ben Franklin's Sayings: Wood Burning

[Carroll Hampleman]

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>> Subject:  Ben Franklin's Sayings:   Wood Burning
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>> Ben Franklin's sayings: WOOD HEATING and CDH's
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>>"Winter time SET-BACK"  for your thermostat.
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>>A "Fooler". and some of Ben Franklin's sayings:
>> "Heating with wood".
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>>FROM:  Mr.  Carroll D. Hampleman Call me Carroll: email: 
>>trackthesun(at)yahoo.com 204 Pinellas St. Lakeland, FL 33803-4832 
>>Development of simple D.I.Y. "SOLAR" plans for the home
>>-owner.  (E-Mail for free info)
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>>A "FOOLER": (I have seen this many times, written
>>different ways.)
>>Construct your own device to automatically LOWER your
>>household thermostat at night-time, before bedtime,
>>and automatically RAISE the thermostat (Oh, about an 
>>hour, or so.) in the morning, before you get up. Less
>>than $10 dollars, or so, and possibly can be
>>constructed with surplus materials found under the
>>workbench AT NO COST! This device will "save" you
>>"dozens" of dollars each heating season, and also
>>serve as a "night-light".
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>>ITEMS NEEDED: ONE 24 hour timer (110 VAC) : approx
>>$5.00 - local Hardware Store. ONE used "Christmas
>>Tree" light.
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>>Procedure: Plug  the Timer into an electrical outlet.
>>Set it so the small light will go ON, about one hour before Bed-Time - 
>>and go OFF about one hour before you get up in the
>>morning. Use a piece of electric light-cord, and string
>>the small light to a position about three or four
>>inches UNDER the thermostat. Note: Can be adjusted,
>>for different "Life-styles".
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>>THEORY of OOPERATION: At night-time, while you are
>>sleeping in a heated bed, the HEAT from this small
>>light, WILL RISE, and FOOL the thermostat into
>>thinking that the entire house is still  warm.
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>>THE FURNACE WILL NOT OPERATE ! The entire house is
>>cooled down about 8 or 10 degrees, while you are
>>asleep in bed, and the entire house will be again
>>"warmed up", when you get up in the morning.
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>>Go ahead and do it. IT  WORKS !! For several years, now,
>>I have had a "FOOLER" at each house I have lived in.
>>(CDH) Other information available by E-Mail: 
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>>CDH note: Wood is a "form" of "Solar Energy". Wood is nature’s PERFECT 
>>solar storage and solar heating device). 
>>For EACH "amount of heat" coming from a burning unit,
>>that heat ORIGINALLY came from the Sun! For heating,
>>use either WOOD, or construct your own Solar Equipment,
>>from simple items noted in the Catalogs of some of the
>>National "Supply Houses". On a "Full Sun" day, my
>>electric "Hot-Water-Heater" (a 4.5 KW Water Heating
>>Element) is not activated by its thermostat. My
>> wife & I can take an "All Solar Shower", knowing that all
>>the Heat in the Water is DIRECTLY from the sun in back
>>yard. 
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>>Some of Ben Franklin's sayings about
>> "Heating with Wood".  Ben Franklin (1706-1790) invented the
>>"Pennsylvanian Fireplace". He stated:  "By the help of 
>>this saving invention our wood may grow as fast as we
>>consume it, and our posterity may warm themselves at a 
>>moderate rate, without being obliged to fetch their
>>fuel from over the Atlantic." Franklin recommended that
>>"ignorant servants" not be permitted to tend the
>>stove,  since they invariably allowed smoke into the
>>room. 
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>>He saw this stove as especially suitable for 
>>"Men of Letters", who, spending much time in their
>>chambers, would be on hand to tend the stove as needed.
>>When Franklin was designing the Pennsylvanian Fireplace,
>>he rejected external firing because without
>>a constant influx of fresh air, the Germans were "obliged to
>>breathe the same unchanged air continually, mixed with
>>the breath and perspiration from one another's bodies,
>>which is very disagreeable to those who have not  been
>>accustomed to it."
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>>"These new fireplaces, though they may keep rooms
>>generally free from smoke, and, the opening being
>>contracted, will allow the door to be shut, yet, the
>>chimney, still requiring a considerable quantity of
>>air, it rushes in at every crevice so strongly, as to
>>make a continual whistling or howling: and it is very
>>uncomfortable, as well as dangerous, to sit against
>>any such crevice. Many colds are caught from this cause
>>only, it being safer to sit in the open street.  Women
>>particularly, from this cause, as they sit much in
>>the house, get colds in the head, rheums, and
>>defluctions, which falls into their jaws and gums, and
>>have destroyed many a fine set of teeth in these northern colonies".
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>>"Fire penetrates bodies, and separates their parts:
>>the air receives and carries off the parts separated,
>>which, if not carried off, would impede the action of
>>the fire.  With the assistance therefore of a moderate
>>current of air, the separation increases, but too
>>violent a blast carries off the fire itself: and thus
>>any fire may be blown out, as a candle by a breath, if
>>the blast be proportionable". 
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>>listed by Carroll D . Hampleman: (Carroll H.)  DIY Solar
>>        Your local Library has this information.
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Franklin's sayings: WOOD HEATING and CDH's	"Winter time SET-BACK". 
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