[Stoves] Understanding "charcoal making" stove s. Was: energy lost in charcoal making and br iquetting

[Jeff Davis]

Steve wrote:
> But the prime useful output is the rotary motion, as
> currently accepted..
> So it isn't a stove.

Hi Steve and All,


Just because I use a screwdriver as a pry bar does not change the fact
that it is a screwdriver.

Motion is heat and heat is motion. So I could be wrong when I said that
the engine is 70% stove, this would make it 100% stove.


An IC engine would NOT work if it were not a stove. The reason it works is
because it heats air.

Like wise a biomass stove (cooking appliance) would not work if it were
not an engine. The cook stove creates motion and this motion is called
draft. Kevin improved a stove by adding a chimney. He made it a better
engine!

The trend is for engines to become better stoves and stoves to become
better engines. For example the engine is performing cogen, of course for
many years it has heated the cabs of cars and trucks. Take a look at the
“center-in injector” cook stove and you will see the stove becoming a
better engine (lots of talk on the list for more fanned stoves).

So how do we convert a stove (large cook stove) into a 100% prime mover?
Answer: Hot air balloon.



Full steam ahead,

Jeff



-- 
Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA