[Stoves] The other side of airpollution

[Michael N Trevor]

While I do not remember the exact chemicals smoke has a wide variety of
materials related to formaldehyde and creosote which will do very nicely as
repellants for vermin as well as preservatives. A much wider list will
probably
be easy to pull up on Google.

Ash in of itself would probably be of little value---

Michael N Trevor
Enemonet Marshall islands


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jason marshall" <jdmarshall at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of biomass cooking stoves" <stoves at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Stoves] The other side of airpollution


> I wonder what component of the smoke protects the roof.
>
> Would it be sufficient, for instance, to deposit ash on the roof by
> hand, or is it the creosote or other elements of the smoke that
> provide the protection?
>
> -Jason