[Stoves] re Report on Improved Dung burning stoves in Tibet

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Jeff
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Davis" <jeff0124 at velocity.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Stoves] re Report on Improved Dung burning stoves in Tibet


> Dear Mike Kevin and All,
>
>>Dung is
>> particularly smokey, especially the way they burn it for heating the
>> house
>
> What if they mixed other odd fuels with the dung, plus water.

My guess is that dung is a fuel in areas where and when other fuels are 
generally lacking or in short supply.

Other odd
> fuels being rice hulls, sawdust etc. Next it could be balled into
> fireballs. Would this blended fuel burn better?

I would guess that there would be an improvement in burning that was 
proportional to the degree that dung was displaced
>
> Furthermore, the dung tea could be food for algae. Algae is a binder and a
> fuel.

But first you have to make dung tea, and my guess is that if you washed the 
Yak Poo to make dung tea, the dung would burn in a superior manner. 
Additionally, the dung tea would have a very significant general agriculture 
benefit.

There are many different kinds of algae. I would guess that some would have 
good "binder properties" while others would not. It would be interesting to 
see if a dung tea nutrient would grow algae that had good binding 
properties. Would you know the name of the algae, or the algae family, that 
has the good binding properties?

Best wishes,

Kevin
>
>
>
> -- 
> Jeff Davis
>
> Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA
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