At 18:59 2/01/02 +0000, you wrote: >Scott & Stovers, > >The Viebach engine can readily be inverted over a conventional wood >burning stove run an alternator via a belt drive and start charging >batteries. Viebach has done this in a demo model: > >See the bottom of this site for a photo: > >http://www.geocities.com/wastewatts/index.html > >You can make out the nest of heat exchanger tubes sitting in the space at >the top of the stove next to the flue outlet. > >In Winter 1995 I demonstrated one of the early Viebach engines in >London. We ran it for a week, 8 hours a day at an engineering exhibition. >We used a 3kW propane burner to supply the heat. The mean electrical power >output was 350W or about 8kWh per 24hrs. So the conversion efficiency was less than 12 %? Peter Verhaart - Stoves List Archives and Website: http://www.crest.org/discussion/stoves/current/ http://www.ikweb.com/enuff/public_html/Stoves.html Stoves List Moderators: Ron Larson, ronallarson@qwest.net Alex English, english@adan.kingston.net Elsen L. Karstad, elk@wananchi.com www.chardust.com List-Post: <mailto:stoves@crest.org> List-Help: <mailto:stoves-help@crest.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:stoves-unsubscribe@crest.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:stoves-subscribe@crest.org> Sponsor the Stoves List: http://www.crest.org/discuss3.html - Other Biomass Stoves Events and Information: http://www.bioenergy2002.org http://solstice.crest.org/renewables/biomass-info/ http://solstice.crest.org/renewables/biomass-info/carbon.shtml For information about CHAMBERS STOVES http://www.ikweb.com/enuff/public_html/Chamber.htm
