[Stoves] Mongolian traditional clay stove

[Ronal Larson]

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> On May 26, 2020, at 6:27 PM, Robert Taylor <rt at ms1.hinet.net <mailto:rt at ms1.hinet.net>> wrote:
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> Doesn't all the heat used for cooking go into the living space anyway (aside from any that gets stored chemically by the cooking process)?
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> 	[RWL:  Yup.
> No doubt the difference is relevant for calculating the performance of individual parts of the system, but does it make any practical difference overall, if cooking is always done when there is also a need for space heating?
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> 	[RWL:  I was just trying to get a sense of the cooking efficiency numbers.  The stove is sold with or without the cook stove option.
> But if the stove is ever used for cooking when there is no need for space heating, wouldn't the inefficiency arising from that fact alone far outweigh the inefficiencies in the "cooking" part of the system?
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> 	[RWL:  Sorry.  I don’t know enough about the stove’s use.   Use for cooking in the winter looks fine.
> Similar to what happens when you add a USB electric output to a cooking stove, if people then start running the stove purely to charge their devices.
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> 	[RWL:  Shouldn’t be much of a problem as there should be at least 2-3 times a day use for cooking.  I think solar chargers probably have sewn up that market.
> Robert Taylor  
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> On 27-May-20 3:30 AM, Ronal Larson wrote:
>>> The result is a controllable flame, very much better combustion efficiency, higher temperatures and better CO combustion. The fuel saving is large - maybe 50%. The KG2.5 is about 88+90% efficient (LHV). 
>>>                 [RWL:  Great news.  What portions of that efficiency number for cooking and heating?
>>> 
>>> That is the heating efficiency.  Cooking comes before the heat exchanger so whatever the cooking efficiency is (depends on the power setting) that is subtracted from the space heating efficiency. 
>> 		[RWL:  Surprising that no-one is measuring the cooking efficiency number.
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