<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, Reuben--<div><br></div><div>Wouldn't it just be the heat of vaporization, 670 Btu/lb of water, times the weight of the water?<br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Best,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Dec 11, 2011, at 7:43 PM, Reuben Deumling wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Michael O'Brien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:obrien@hevanet.com">obrien@hevanet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div>A smoky fire that will be unpleasant and toxic.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Actually that has not been my experience. I believe... that I can burn
with no visible smoke across that whole range (if my brother's moisture
meter is any good, and it should be). None of these moisture levels corresponds to wood that sizzles--they're not
that wet. I think I've understood that the penalty comes from the need
to 'cook off' the extra moisture that ends up robbing heat that would
have otherwise gone into the room. But I'd like to know if there have been attempts to quantify this penalty. <br><br>Thanks.<br> </div></div>
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