<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi, Reuben--<div><br></div><div>Yes, but efficiency isn't everything.</div><div><br></div><div>For example, I did not want to use gas for cooking because of the nitrogen oxides that open gas flames produce, my family already has allergies and we don't need the irritation.</div><div><br></div><div>And speaking of irritation, the gas company here has not supported energy efficiency in buildings, in fact have resisted code changes, so I bear a grudge. The electric utility has supported efficiency programs, except for a brief interlude when they were boarded by pirates from Texas.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike<br><div><br></div><div><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Mike O'Brien Photography</span><br><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><a href="http://mikeoregon.zenfolio.com">mikeoregon.zenfolio.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On Jun 23, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Reuben Deumling <<a href="mailto:9watts@gmail.com">9watts@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">Lowtech magazine just published a piece on a related issue: efficiency of cooking with different fuels:<br><a href="http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/06/thermal-efficiency-cooking-stoves.html">http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/06/thermal-efficiency-cooking-stoves.html</a><br>
<br>"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."<br><br><br></div>
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