[Stoves] VERY interesting article in LOW-TECH MAGAZINE: Well-Tended Fires Outperform Modern Cooking Stoves
Paul Anderson
psanders at ilstu.edu
Fri May 29 11:26:29 CDT 2015
Stovers,
I highly recommend everyone see this article on
> Well-Tended Fires Outperform Modern Cooking Stoves
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/06/thermal-efficiency-cooking-stoves.html
Very well done, with references, and providing some awesome quotations for future
articles by others.
1.
> In fact, an electric cooking stove is only half as efficient as a
> well-tended
> open fire, while a gas hob is only half as effective as a biomass
> rocket stove.
> And even though indoor air pollution is less of an issue with modern
> cooking stoves,
> research indicates that pollution levels in western kitchens can be
> surprisingly high.
2.
> Improved biomass stoves have double or triple the thermal efficiency
> of modern
> electric or gas cooking stoves.
3. Best thermal efficiency (out of 9 stove types) is 45% accomplished by Woodgas stove. (on chart).
4. It is disappointing that the article repeats data from a 2008 report that is now superceeded, and
cites the 2012 PCIA report of data collected by Aprovecho 7 to 8 years earlier (but publication delayed).
I hope that many Stovers will read this article from Low-Tech Magazine and make comments.
I am sending a separate message (with different Subject line) about delays in finding this
article (almost one year after publication) so that the two Subjects have different threads of discussion.
Paul
Doc / Dr TLUD / Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email: psanders at ilstu.edu
Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website: www.drtlud.com
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