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34 minutes ago, Billhook said:

Just been on the roof and the temperature of the chimney pot is 7 degrees, so the efficiency of the Rumford is 500/7 x 100 or about 7000%.  I am only following the science just like Boris and I am sure it is just as accurate!

Would that not be 7/500 = 0.014 x 100 = 1.4

 

So 100 - 1.4 = 98.6%

 

Mind you TEMPERATURE is entirely different to heat.. Think of this, to heat the surface of a material with a very low specific heat capacity that was a good insulator to 500 degrees, would take very little heat, but to warm up the entire brickwork of your house to 7 degrees [from nothing] would take an awful lot of heat [for not a lot of temperature change]

 

Still, beats the heck out of having an insulated flue and having 500 degree flue gasses, [and a toasty warm sky!]

 

john..

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16 minutes ago, john87 said:

Would that not be 7/500 = 0.014 x 100 = 1.4

 

So 100 - 1.4 = 98.6%

 

Mind you TEMPERATURE is entirely different to heat.. Think of this, to heat the surface of a material with a very low specific heat capacity that was a good insulator to 500 degrees, would take very little heat, but to warm up the entire brickwork of your house to 7 degrees [from nothing] would take an awful lot of heat [for not a lot of temperature change]

 

Still, beats the heck out of having an insulated flue and having 500 degree flue gasses, [and a toasty warm sky!]

 

john..

Maths was never my strong point, but like Boris

Can you see the videos and if so can you explain why Stubby cannot see them?

Here is the Rumford after two hours with nothing added 

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