[Stoves] Fuel Testing

[AJH]

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:07:04 -0700, frank wrote:

>I would think a wet piece of wood would conduct heat through the wood 
>faster. Water transfers the heat.

The point being that water only transmits heat up to a temperature of
about 100C, then it turns to steam absorbing much higher amounts of
heat than the heat necessary to reach that 100C. So there will be a
plateau temperature held at 100C whilst the water evaporates before it
can start rising up to pyrolysis temperatures.

AJH