[Stoves] energy lost in charcoal makinag and briquetting

[Thomas Reed]

Dear Paul:

I am buried in Email, but always read your submissions. 

The BEF is morphing into the BEF/BEC, BEC=Biomass Energy Corporation, a 
FOR profit spinoff from BEF with investor money to do things faster and 
better.  More later...

Your pal,

TOM

Paul S. Anderson wrote:
> Dear A.D. and all,
>
> Congratulations with your charcoal making stove!!!  I prefer that name 
> for your
> stove instead of the T-LUD designation which is applied to devices that have
> the more separated combustion of the gases in addition to being lit at 
> the top.
> As Dean's and your own comments have helped us understand, your stove is akin
> to the charcoal making stove that Ron Larson showed to Dean and to you (and
> probably elsewhere) which is without the distinctive upper can/cylinder and
> secondary-air management for gases-combustion that is found in the Reed-Larson
> 1996 documented device.  I am glad that we are clearly distinguishing the
> different technologies, noting their similarities and differences.
>
> Dean commented on the "lazy, red flame" in his experiments with Larson-style
> charcoal making stoves.  Words like lazy and weak are relative and somewhat
> unjustly biased.  Such flames can be highly appropriate for some cooking.  So
> maybe "flaccid" or "non-vigous" might be better terms.
>
> Anyway, can you describe and comment upon the "vigor" or strength of 
> your flame,
> and if it is uniform for the duration of the burn?  And can the stove produce
> stronger flames and even less-vigorous flames (that is, does it have much of a
> turn-down ratio)?
>
> When I was at ARTI in Phaltan for 5 weeks one year ago, we did not identify a
> reliable supply of acceptable fuels similar to those you described, nor
> encounter the willingness of many local people to be gathering the 
> fuels as you
> mentioned.  When you have those fuel supply issues well under control, 
> that will
> be a great benefit for any and all of the stoves that can utilize those fuels
> well.
>
> Paul
>