[Greenbuilding] between a rock and a shoulder season

Steven Tjiang steve at tjiang.org
Tue Jul 1 14:58:49 CDT 2014


Why bother cooking?  Raw food all the way!  Cooking seems like an insult by
that lowtech standard.  IMHO they didn't go low-tech enough.

Having said that, you can take my induction cooktop powered by PV and wind
only by prying it from my cold dead body?

---- Steve (KZ6LSD)


On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lowtech  magazine just published a piece on a related issue: efficiency of
> cooking with different fuels:
>
> http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/06/thermal-efficiency-cooking-stoves.html
>
> "Converting heat into electricity which is then converted back into heat,
> at 20-40% efficiency, is similar to building a Rube Goldberg machine; it's
> a needlessly complex operation compared to simply converting the primary
> fuel into heat to boil water. Essentially, any electric cooking device is
> an insult to the science of thermodynamics."
>
>
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