[Gasification] Therepeutic Smoke

[jim mason]

also, one of the main uses of smoke in tropical areas is for mosquito
abatement.  mosquitos run away from smoke.  so sitting in smokey
houses, or in the smoke around a campfire, is vastly preferable to
being attacked by mosquitos.

most people living traditionally in mosquito areas have tremendous
tolerance to smoke in their eyes.  i was always amazed in papua new
guinea how everyone could sit in dense smokey situations that would
make the eyes of sensitive westerners run with water.

j

ps-  smoke is also good to artificially age wood carvings, which the
tourists will always buy for a higher price than things that look new.



On 2/5/07, Thomas Reed <tombreed at comcast.net> wrote:
> Dear Paul and All:
>
> Wood smoke isn't all bad.  It is useful as a food preservative and a
> roof deverminizer.
>
> Recent posts have addressed the problem of protecting thatched roofs
> with smoke while eliminating indoor air pollution with no smoke.
> Fortunately, smoke and heat rise, so one could smoke the roof while the
> kids were at school if you had a good smoker.
>
> Paul suggested using the TLUD gasifier with the secondary combustion air
> holes close off.
>
> Another possibility is a bee smoker, sold by beekeeping  supply
> houses.   You fill it with biomass junk (old rags etc.) and pump the
> bellows.  A heavy stream of smoke jets out.  The bees panic when they
> smell smoke and gorge themselves on honey and become docile.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Smoke will probably keep the wildlife out of the underside of the roof.
> How about an elixer of smoke to pour on the outside?
>
> My first gasifier (1973) filled a whole valley with smoke in Concord,
> MASS.
>
> Smokey (when needed) TOM REED
>
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