“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
~ Leonardo DiVinci.
This engine was designed in the 1920′s. It’s simple: the gasoline enters the cylinder after passing through a carburetor, where it is mixed up with oxygen. Once it’s in the cylinder it is ignited by a spark. The energy from the resulting explosion causes a piston to turn a crank, which changes the energy of movement that the piston produces into a spinning energy, which is run through a transmission and into the wheels, thus moving the car.
The engine under the hood in your driveway right now runs conceptually the same way as the 1920′s hit and miss engine. The primary difference is that you get a lot more work out of each bit of fuel, because the process has been analyzed and each part has been designed to work better. More variables have been taken into account than I am aware would play a role in the process.
Every masonry stove functions conceptually alike: Dry wood fuel of any type is placed in the combustion chamber. A volume of air is allowed to enter the combustion chamber and the wood burns – the heat thus produces warms the masonry of the stove. How efficiently this happens depends on many factors.
Our stoves take into account everything from altitude and maximum fuel load to resistance of flow due to direction changes, material surface texture, and height changes within they system (buoyancy differences inherent to updrafting and downdrafting channels are not only considered, but calculated into your stove’s design).
Keeping the gasses mixing at the right temperature for the right amount of time to burn hot and clean, and then moving the exhaust through the system at a speed which yields the best heat transfer possible is a serious challenge. Our stoves function at the peak of what’s possible because during the design process we take into account every possible variable.
Anyone can design a brick box that will warm up after you put some quantity of wood through it. To get that box at the right temperature for the right amount of time on as little fuel as possible requires an engineering approach. Even a simple masonry heater will outperform a metal woodstove, but our engineering produces a stove that functions at the absolute peak of efficiency, and it doesn’t cost any more. In fact, because we’re giving you the right sized stove, often times we can come in at lower cost than a kit or a one size fits all design.
Our stoves are just as simple to use as the less well engineered stoves, but much much more goes into making them that way, so they give you much much more.
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