[Stoves] Fw: Fan-blaster Combustors, Stove Camp 2006, and the Dell-Point Pellet Stove

[Paul S. Anderson]

Dear Crispin and Stovers,

Quoting "Crispin at newdawn.sz" <crispin at newdawn.sz>:

> These sound like continuous feed, forced air stoves, as a class.  There are
> too many ways and places to force air to invent new categories for each new
> invention.  Rather call them by their marketing name.

As in biological classifications, for stoves there are the "mega-groups" of
phyla and class.  And at the bottom end are the species with individual 
names. But in the middle, there is a need to make segments the 
mega-groups and for the
segments to contain many of the species.

>
> By the way the new "Save 80" from Christian Kock is virtually a 'trickle
> feed' stove and does not have a fan.

I do not know the "Save 80" and Google did not find it for me.  What URL?

> A Rocket Stove is arguably a trickle
> feed stove depending on where you set the time limit for the feed interval.
> "Episodic feed stoves"?  That is just about all of them!

The word "arguably" can justify many comments.

Maybe there is a continuium between trickle to episodic to batch.  But that
could match with the words very-small-quantities, moderate-quantities, and
large-quantities of fuel.  You wrote:  "That is just about all of them!"  and
therein lies the problem:  we must be able to meaningfully differentiate
between the categories.

Classification is one of the most basic requirements of science.  
Periodic Table
in Chemisty, Biology taxonomy, geographic/cultural areas, types of psychosis,
etc.  Every science does classification, and there can be disagreements about
the classifications.  But not the elimination of classifications.  If we want
none-Stovers to better understand our "Stove-Science", we need to help them
understand the differences in the types of stoves and in the types/methods of
combustion.

As I wrote before:
>> So, when there could be confusion about which type of combustion was being
>> utilized, we could refer to the:
>> Woodgas T-LUD Campstove or the Woodgas TF/FB Campstove
>> or Phillips T-LUD stove or Phillips TF/FB stove.

AND classify them into the T-LUD group or into the TF/FB
(trickle-fuel/fan-blaster) group based on type of combustion, with the major
characteristics of each group being consistant and justifiable.

To do otherwise would be to have "Stove-Science" be seen as a pseudo-science,
lacking in the ability to understand and classify its significant components.

[[ I guess that the "professor" in me is really evident in this message. ]]

Paul
-- 
Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D., Geography professor - Emeritus
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