And I never said that‼
Yes you did, that is what comment #57 was all about. "Now, I won't argue that burning 30% more of the available fuel (in this case a portion of the particulate emissions supposedly not burned by a smoke dragon) will result in more heat... it flat has to result in more (generated) heat from the same amount of fuel loaded in a box. What I will argue is whether-or-not you receive, or realize, all of that extra heat in your home." was part of it - if that heat does not enter your home there is only one other place it can go - up the flue, which is exactly what you were going on about in most of that comment. Have you changed your mind now? Please explain where that energy can go if it doesn't go up the flue and it didn't go in the house?
I said if all else remains equal, a hotter firebox temperature means hotter gasses exiting.
It don't matter squat what sort of firebox it is, EPA or not, if ya' run the temperature in any particular firebox hotter, by any means whatever, the flue gas temperature also increases. And nothing short of magic can change that... and I certainly never claimed it wasn't true in a non-EPA box.
Only if the air control hasn't moved. If I stop the air inlet down and the secondary combustion kicks in, then the firebox may get much hotter but the volume of flue gases goes down. Or the flue may get hotter, but not in proportion to the firebox.
I don't use radiated heat to heat the living area of my home, I use conducted heat‼ Radiated heat is, for the most part, worthless, wasted heat for my application... that was the whole friggin' point that you obviously missed‼ It does near no friggin' good to radiate heat into the cold concrete walls of my basement to just be transferred to the dirt behind it... when I'm trying to heat my upstairs living area‼ And it's the same in my shop... It does near no friggin' good to radiate heat into the cold board walls to just be transferred to the outside. If blowing air over the firebox "kills" heat transfer... how in hell is it possible that I heat the living areas of my home with a forced air furnace??
All you've done is say the same thing I have... but with some sort of blinding attitude.
I know the mechanisms of radiated and conducted heat... but it don't matter cold squat how much radiated heat comes off the box if it's going where you can't use it. I have no friggin' use for radiated heat in my application... none, nada, zilch, zip‼ Radiation does very little to warm air directly, it passes through it until it strikes a solid surface. In my applications, heat radiation (from the box) is near worthless, wasted heat‼ It could just as well not even exist.
So... why don't you explain why all this extra secondary burn heat radiation, a very large share of which is passing through the glass door and not even warming the box, is "more better" for me?? And when the secondary shuts-down, the fire collapses into coals, and the primary heat transfer method (in an insulated box) is radiated through the glass door... exactly how is that "more better" for me??
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