[Stoves] Which technologies will best reduce CO and black carbon, improve health and safety and lower household energy costs?

[Tom Miles]

Martin and all,

 

If cooking requires approximately 1 kg wood per person per day how much wood
is saved by RHC? 0.30 kg wood?

 

Tom

 

 

 

 

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From: Boll, Martin Dr. [mailto:boll.bn at t-online.de] 
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 12:38 PM
To: Stoves-List
Cc: 'Tom Miles'
Subject: Re: Which technologies will best reduce CO and black carbon,improve
health and safety and lower household energy costs?

 

Dear Tom

And all disputants

 

I voted for retained heat cooking. (This is only one part of vote nr.3 and
not mentioned by word in the voting list!)

 

1. There are most of all people eating rice, excellent for RHC
(Retained-heat Cooking).

2. Most "cooking on boiling point is waste of energy" (words from Frans
Peeters). We don't speak from typically high temperature cooking-methods.

3. Low temperature cooking is healthy.

 

4. RHC can be done easily. (Dress your cooking-pot with a sweater, when you
cook "advanced" with electricity). Otherwise, speed up temperature nearly to
boiling point, with a fast burning fire, which can die even fast.
("shortage" of fuel to ran out of fire when no more needed). Put the pot
directly into the RHC-cooker. (e.g. Sheep- or bear-skin, pillow,
cotton-balls, rock-wool, soaked and form-dried paper, wood-shavings, real
hey, ). Construction-material is everywhere and cheap.

 

5. If needed speed up temperature with a tea-candle/s or other small energy
source. The technically/trimming -version: You can even speed up temperature
with a home-trainer, which is able to produce electricity, and feed a light
bulb! 

 

6. Simmering time of rice +/- 25 minutes. That is 5 times 5 minutes, the
time to bring to cook. Take the turning down ratio of a stove 1 to 5
(friendly seen). Simmering consumes possibly roughly the same energy as
temperature speeding up to boil. We have to discuss about roughly 50%
energy-saving. 

 

1. smile,

2. think,

3. try, 

4. discuss,

5. decide

 

I bet at least 50 people (totally) voting. (By loss, I will construct a
simple cooking-stove with tea-candles, turning down ratio 7 to 1)

 

Martin