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

[Tom Miles]

I agree with Andrew. 

I find that quibbling over the names of stoves distracts from the primary
mission of promoting "the development
and introduction of improved biomass-burning stoves." This can clearly
include a variety of devices. We have defined "stoves" for this discussion
as follows:

"stoves" includes cookstoves, space-heating, water-heating, but
might also include small kilns, ovens, etc., with emphasis on the first
topic. (See http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/en/about ) 

Tom Miles


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of AJH
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 3:42 PM
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Understanding "charcoal making" stoves. Was:energy
lost in charcoal making and briquetting

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

>
>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

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