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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Suspension losses
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:28:06 -0600
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On 1/14/2025 3:04 AM, John B. wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:13:57 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:58:35 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/13/2025 12:06 PM, Wolfgang Strobl wrote:
>>>> You, as a person, don't need or consume heat. Somewhat simplified, you
>>>> need a certain range of temperatures.  In the ideal case, you don't need
>>>> any additional energy, because your body already produces heat. A little
>>>> bit of isolation, perhaps provided by that very blanket, might be
>>>> sufficient.
>>>
>>> And, I suppose, we could do away with all home heating, and just wear
>>> very heavy clothing all winter. But I don't know of anyone doing that.
>>
>> I'm currently doing something similar to save firewood, which costs
>> about $500/cord delivered.  My bed has multiple layers of blanket and
>> a goose feather duvet.  During the day at home, I wear a padded jacket
>> and fleece lined pants.  I'm constantly moving around so I tend to
>> warm myself.  I usually wear a wool hat indoors to keep my head warm.
>> At about sundown, the temperature drops sufficiently to require
>> additional heat.  The wood burner runs in the evening for about 5 hrs
>> until I fall into the bed.  If I have guests during the day, I start a
>> fire in the wood burner.  The reason this works for me is that the
>> temperatures are quite mild during most of the winter.
>>
>> <https://photos.app.goo.gl/akvXf9MyYNzpYpY77>
> 
> 
> I don't know whether you know this but when using a stove to heat a
> room put the stove in  the opposite side of the room from the chimney.
> Then run the stovepipe from the stove straight up from the stove to
> the ceiling and then along the ceiling, using mounts to separate the
> stove pipe and ceiling, of course, across the room to the chimney.
> 
> That way you get more heat from the same amount of wood.
> 
> 

And more flue to clean. Which is more important than it may 
at first seem.

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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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