https://permies.com/t/122458/Advice-RMH-build-Hokkaido-JapanBarbara Manning wrote:I would love to install on of these in my house but I would have to import all y'all to make it for me. Sigh.
Douglas Alpenstock wrote:Fresnel lenses are fun! And I'm keeping my eyes open for a big one to play with.
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They don't offer an energy freebie though. They can concentrate solar energy, but it's exactly the same amount of energy that falls on a simple pane of glass of the same physical dimensions.
That's quite à possibility. What other cause i could see, with such a short chimney. Opening a door, where hot air escapes by the door as well as the chimney. The csa of the door being bigger, it might reverse the draft, with that stubby tube out of the roof.Glenn Herbert wrote:The OP said on her facebook thread that there is 4' of chimney above the nearly flat roof. It is not tall, but would be adequate in otherwise good conditions.
She also said that the wood (a few sticks) burned fine for ten minutes, then finished burning, went to coals, and started reversing and smoking back.
I think there was insufficient fuel to heat up the system, and when the flames making the draft went away, the heat from the coals took the easy way straight up out of the feed.