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Hi Ron,<br>
Yes, that is basically it. Our lives are complicated enough. Hands
off, simple, cheap, self regulating processes that work, intrigue
me. <br>
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Non sequitur alert!<br>
A few years ago I built a ram pump<br>
<a href="http://www.clemson.edu/irrig/equip/ram.htm">http://www.clemson.edu/irrig/equip/ram.htm</a><br>
just for the joy of watching it work. That and the vain hope of
pumping water to the back pasture.<br>
Here's another one, somebody somewhere else could use this concept.<br>
<a
href="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</a><br>
It's not 'stoves' but moving water, like firewood, is another one of
those burdens that recieves attention from the development crowd.<br>
Cancel Alert!<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<br>
Alex<br>
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On 14/01/2012 6:06 PM, Ronald Hongsermeier wrote:
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Dear Alex,<br>
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. <br>
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My assumptions:<br>
only natural draft<br>
passive feeding/gravity<br>
no draft control other than pipe diameter limits<br>
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true/false?<br>
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regards,<br>
Ron<br>
vom Hocker<br>
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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.<br>
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