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

[Steve Taylor]

Kevin Chisholm wrote:
> OK... consider a device that produced a "burnable gas".... in contrast to a 
> device that produced "a burned gas that could not be ignited."
>
> Would not the former be a "gasifier" and the latter a "stove"?
>   
Lets try this for a fundamental descriptor of a stove:

Stove, a high temperature retort wherein pyrolytic reduction of organic 
materials takes place.



Steve