One side burning due to earth's rotation?

[Calentarse]

Some of you may recall a question I had about the earth's rotation affecting the burning of our stoves. My dealer had stated that just as toilet bowls flush in one direction in the Northern Hemisphere (and the opposite in the Southern), our stoves won't burn evenly depending on which way they're facing. He said, "if it backs up to the south or east" it won't burn evenly. I didn't know what to say to that. ?

So my dealer was once again in my house for another reason and said the same thing when I asked him about my stove not burning wood down one side as quickly as the other.

As you can see in this photo from this morning when I was burning down my coals, the latch side is alive with flames over the coals. The hinge side is black, behind a black glass, seemingly getting no air? I don't get it...

 

[firefighterjake]

Earth rotation . . . just a dumb firefighter . . . but I suspect the reason why a stove may burn better on one side or another or why one side of the glass is black might have more to do with the stove construction, air flow and/or gasketing.

 

[Happy Stacker]

How the air moves about in your firebox affects the burn pattern

 

[Sconnie Burner]

Both stoves I've burned (quad 3100 and Ideal Steel) have been cooler on the fresh air inlet side. Just my observation but I believe the air cools the stove down on the corresponding side and makes the burn a little less efficient causing black spots on glass and blackened fire brick on that side.

 

[begreen]

Your dealer is passing on myths. The toilet bowl design determines which way the water swirls down the trap.

"Despite the large amount of misinformation, toilets—and even tornadoes—are too small to be affected by the Coriolis, whose force would only begin to directly influence a storm's swirling mass if it were approximately three times larger than the supercell storm systems that typically generate tornadoes."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/...equator-tornadoes-spin-in-opposite-direction/

 

[Bigger_Al]

Flat earth so no rotation! [emoji6]

 

[Happy Stacker]

Check the holes above the side that is turning black. They may be plugged preventing the smoke from going out them. I just saw a video where a guy "FIXED" this problem by cutting 3" off his firebricks.

 

[coutufr]

The corialis effect has no potential for modifying the combustion of wood which is just a chemical reaction. If it had any effect we would need to reinvent chemistry and engineering altogether.

 

[Rearscreen]

One rotation fact you can tell him is that if woodstoves were sold on the equator they would physically weigh less.

 

[Happy Stacker]

One rotation fact you can tell him is that if woodstoves were sold on the equator they would physically weigh less.

Yes a 700 lb stove would be 3.5 lb lighter at the equator...

 

[jetsam]

Ooh, we got a rocket scientist here. Ask that dealer if you can burn pine in the stove!

 

[yooper08]

Based on the dealer's claim, I live at the equator (or a pole, I'm not sure which). My coals are centered.

 

[peakbagger]

My guess is most stove doors are going to be designed for right handed people and therefore would have the hinge on the left. Gasket leakage is most likely more on the handle side of the door so there could be a subtle effect to combustion where slight air leakage on the right side of the door would cause slightly more combustion on the handle (right) side. Definitely don't think the coriolis effect is a factor

 

[Hogwildz]

That dealer is a douche!

 

[Manly]

That dealer is a douche!

It seems the dealer is more versed in toilet bowls than wood stoves.

 

[sportbikerider78]

This thread reminded me that my car blinker fluid needs a flush.

 

[snaple4]

This thread reminded me that my car blinker fluid needs a flush.

Wow, yours too! I hope it doesn't cost to much....

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[Dobish]

all longitudes are equators....

 

[fishki]

Simple fix, just needs a 90 degree counter clockwise horizontal rotation.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

But does the smoke spin as it goes up the chimney?






Bwahahahahahaaaaaaa!

 

[Simonkenton]

"One rotation fact you can tell him is that if woodstoves were sold on the equator they would physically weigh less."

That is obvious. Every moron knows that.
But, what about the wood stoves they use on the Space Shuttle? What do you think they weigh?

 

[Dobish]

"One rotation fact you can tell him is that if woodstoves were sold on the equator they would physically weigh less."

That is obvious. Every moron knows that.
But, what about the wood stoves they use on the Space Shuttle? What do you think they weigh?

i can only speak to space toilets. those weigh less for sure

 

[Bootstrap]

Since the Earth is flat I would say that theory is void.

 

[Ashful]

This thread reminded me that my car blinker fluid needs a flush.

I thought the same thing, the first time someone told me about DEF, five or ten years ago. Then I find out it’s a real thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_exhaust_fluid

The Coriolis effect is real, but is swamped the the myriad of other forces and reactions happening in a wood stove. If it has any bearing on how your stove behaves, it is almost certainly immeasurably small.

 

[HomeinPA]

My "educated" guess is that the reason the latch side is hotter is because the air is being drawn in on that side so them there coals along that side would get hotter faster. Of course that would depend on which way the air swirled inside the stove and at what velocity it was moving and whether it raining or snowing the day you took the picture