As usual, you're full of $h!t Del. My elitist stove has been installed in the shop for well over a year now... installed exactly per manufacturer's specifications. There has be zero... absolutely zero improvement. If you're gonna' try and add something to the discussion... at least try and add something of relative value instead of your self-serving bu!!$h!t.It was pointed out to Spider in the past that the chimney draft was way too high in his install. He also has multiple appliances hooked to the same chimney.
His bad install is a direct result of the EPA!
No... at least not that supports your claim of better heating efficiency (except through your own conjecture)....if you sort through the numbers it is there...
See... I believe too often in discussion such as this, too much emphasis is placed on fuel efficiency as the be-all-to-end-all. Sure, there are times when fuel efficiency is a consideration; such as lookin' to buy a car for my teenage daughter for drivin' back and forth to work. But if I'm lookin' for a truck to pull my stock trailer across the county horsepower comes way before fuel efficiency.
Now if I'm lookin' to put a stove in my cozy little den for a little ambiance and supplemental heat... and especially if I buy my firewood, fuel efficiency would be a consideration. But if I'm lookin' to heat my entire drafty, uninsulated, old farm house when it's -20° and blowin'... horsepower (i.e., BTU output per hour) is the only friggin' consideration. (And don't talk at me about insulation... we're talking about the difference in applications.)
I guarantee when high heat, really high heat, hour after hour after hour after hour is required, a smoke dragon pullin' air up through the fire from the bottom is gonna' outperform and elitist stove every friggin' time. Hang the friggin' fuel consumption, more horsepower requires more fuel. And it ain't linear, more horsepower necessarily means lower fuel efficiency (even in your elitist stove)... always has been that way, always will be.
What is, or isn't, "better" ain't as cut 'n' dried as you make it out to be... it's never been as simple as a few "efficiency" numbers.
I'm not the one in denial here, I fully concede to the points from the "other side"... it's the "other side" that (usually) refuses to concede any points from this side.
And that's why I call them "elitist stoves"... it friggin' fits.
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