We have been burning the Oslo pretty hard, harder than usual due to the extreme cold and death of our ancient oil fired boiler. We have had excessive coal accumulation making it impossible to put in a full nightime load. He said you'd better get on "your" Hearth.com because something is wrong with "your" stove - so I did.
I told him that it was due to frequent loading to keep up with our heating needs which that past couple of days has been pretty intense and I explained all the ways I found to minimize the phenomena by raking the coals to the front, opening up the air as the burn cyles down, adding small splits to reduce them etc. Best of all, lets just get the cook stove going too and slack off on the Oslo a bit, thaw out the dish liquid...
Anyway, he insists that coals should produce more heat than the burning wood. I did point that you can see that this is not the case in any of our stoves, for instance to get the cook stove hot enough to ,oh, lets say cook a turkey you can't just have a box full of coals (which would be be pretty hard to accomplish anyway since it is so not air tight) you have to add wood.
I don't have the words to explain/prove why this is so. He just thinks it cannot be and cites charcoal and coal, as in anthracite, as his examples.
Can someone put into words for me what is happening in the burn cycle and the heating energy in wood vs. glowing coals???
I told him that it was due to frequent loading to keep up with our heating needs which that past couple of days has been pretty intense and I explained all the ways I found to minimize the phenomena by raking the coals to the front, opening up the air as the burn cyles down, adding small splits to reduce them etc. Best of all, lets just get the cook stove going too and slack off on the Oslo a bit, thaw out the dish liquid...
Anyway, he insists that coals should produce more heat than the burning wood. I did point that you can see that this is not the case in any of our stoves, for instance to get the cook stove hot enough to ,oh, lets say cook a turkey you can't just have a box full of coals (which would be be pretty hard to accomplish anyway since it is so not air tight) you have to add wood.
I don't have the words to explain/prove why this is so. He just thinks it cannot be and cites charcoal and coal, as in anthracite, as his examples.
Can someone put into words for me what is happening in the burn cycle and the heating energy in wood vs. glowing coals???
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