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

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Friends

I have real all these taxonomic messages and it does seem a bit of a stretch 
to try to make up names for everything.

Steve says "...if the primary output of a stove is burnable gas, then it 
should be a gasifier stove."

I was thinking more like 'the primary output of the primary combustor', not 
the stove.

Reading the messages from Paul'n'All it seems there is no room for a Vesto 
in these definition because it handily switches back and forth betweeen 
charcoal making and charcoal burning, it can be operated in a true 
close-coupled (by a few inches) gasifier mode where the flames burning the 
gas are clearly separate from the pyrolizer, but not by much, and it can be 
top lit or bottom lit depending on your preference, and it can be refuelled 
without shutting down first.

I can't see this discussion going anywhere unless teh pyrolizing section is 
described separately from the 'burner' above which sites the pot.

Regards
Crispin