[Stoves] Help with Reproductive Biomass and Pine Cones

[Ken Boak]

Chris, Tom & List,

Traditionally the common forms of reproductive biomass have been considered
to be food stuffs (where edible) and not fuel.

The high starch, sugar or oil content contained within, makes them very
attractive nutritionally,  and in general, the non-edible parts of the plant
were destined to be fuel.

Even "human non-edible"  biomass is often reserved as animal feed, before it
is burned as fuel.

It is only with the economically distorted agricultural environment that now
exists as a result of the fossil fuelled economy, that allows some of these
high energy content reproductive biomass types to be considered directly as
fuel - for example burning maize corn in adapted pellet stoves.

In regions of the world, where food resources are limited, the natural human
survival instinct would be to eat these foodstuffs first, before even
considering putting them on the stove.

I would draw the line at acorns,  but I believe that they are well favoured
by the porcine community.



regards,



Ken