[Stoves] The upside of Down feed

[Alex English]

Hi  Ron,
Yes, that is basically it. Our lives are complicated enough. Hands off, 
simple, cheap, self regulating processes that work,  intrigue me.

Non sequitur alert!
A few years ago I built a ram pump
http://www.clemson.edu/irrig/equip/ram.htm
just for the joy of watching it work. That and the vain hope of pumping 
water to the back pasture.
Here's another one, somebody somewhere else could use this concept.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlat1uhVJOo&list=UUeH3joZ1vBl8moo8N7vvnRQ&index=1&feature=plcp 
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlat1uhVJOo&list=UUeH3joZ1vBl8moo8N7vvnRQ&index=1&feature=plcp>
It's not 'stoves' but moving water, like firewood, is another one of 
those burdens that recieves attention from the development crowd.
Cancel Alert!

  When we use processed fuels we delegate some one else to struggle with 
the "complicated" difficult tasks of making our lives 'simple'. Hense 
the appeal of the Peko Pe.

I have access to inexpensive  dryish chips which would be a handy 
alternative to pellets if they can be tamed. The downdraft gasifier 
people  using large  powered pressure drops can do it. Indeed, where is 
the natural draft model?

Alex



On 14/01/2012 6:06 PM, Ronald Hongsermeier wrote:
> Dear Alex,
> I really like this. It may be at least part of a solution to the 
> problem that I originally joined the stoves list for several years back.
>
> My assumptions:
> only natural draft
> passive feeding/gravity
> no draft control other than pipe diameter limits
>
> true/false?
>
> regards,
> Ron
> vom Hocker
>
> P.S. I constructed something a bit like this to vent hot, wet air from 
> my clothes dryer to the outside without boring any holes through my 
> rental apartment's walls. I built it to press fit into the 
> German-style tilt-from-bottom-hinge/open-as-door window. It served 
> well until the dryer gave up the ghost and was replaced by a 
> dehumidification type dryer.
>

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