[Stoves] Understanding "charcoal making" stoves. Was: energy lost in charcoal making and briquetting

[AJH]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 17:31:51 -0400, Kevin Chisholm wrote:

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>As List Moderators, could you please provide what you feel is a good 
>definition of a "stove?"

I suspect providing all the answers is beyond the remit of any
moderator ( I dislike the term and rather favour facilitator) because
if we knew it all there would be no need to promote any discussion.

Non authoritatively my first bash at it in the context of this list
would be: a device burning a fuel, preferably biomass derived, to
provide heat primarily for cooking.

AJH