<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>Having said that, you can take my induction cooktop powered by PV and wind only by prying it from my cold dead body?</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>---- Steve (KZ6LSD)</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Reuben Deumling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:9watts@gmail.com" target="_blank">9watts@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<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" target="_blank">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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