[Stoves] Stove testing methods

[Paul S. Anderson]

Quoting Kevin Chisholm <kchisholm at ca.inter.net>:

> .... the greater objective of the Stoves List, which
> seemingly is to configure simple, low cost, more efficient, cooking and
> heating stoves that provide a reduced health hazard to the user. If this is
> an acceptable definition of the purpose of the stoves list, ...

Correct above, but incorrect below:

> ...the T-LUD
> stoves, which were fundamentally designed for the North American Camping
> Market, would seem to be a fringe stove technology.

Tom Reed conceptualized and operationalized the CONTROLLED and useful form of
top-lit updraft pyrolytic gasification (now called T-LUD combustion) in 1985
specifically with developing societies in mind.  10 years later, the 
well-known
Reed-Larson stove was presented, again aimed at assisting the needy.  See  "A
WOOD-GAS STOVE FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES," and all with natural draft.
http://bioenergylists.org/stovesdoc/Reed/T1.htm

I met Tom Reed in 2001 when he had a prototype of a forced air unit that
eventually became the Woodgas Campstove in 2004-05.  Thankfully, Tom 
did decide
that a stove for the affluent camper market would at least bring the T-LUD
technology to more people and to where it can be tested.

Because of Tom's early work, there are today continuing efforts to have T-LUD
technology meet "the greater objective of the Stoves List" that you so
accurately stated.

Paul
-- 
Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D., Geography professor - Emeritus
Telephone:  USA-309-452-7072 (residence and office)
Internet site:  www.ilstu.edu/~psanders
For my gasifier stoves info, go to:
http://bioenergylists.org/contributors#Paul_Anderson




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