[Stoves] Charcoal Champion Stove. Was: Charcoal Rocket Stove

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Paul

Paul S. Anderson wrote:
> A.D.,   (with note at end for Ron Larson about this topic)
> 
> A.D.'s application of the Champion stove sounds very good to me.

Are you perhaps reading something into AD's posting that is not there? 
AD said his device "works exactly like Paul Anderson's Champion Stove."

He did not say he was "using a Champion Stove."

Best wishes,

Kevin

> Quoting adkarve <adkarve at pn2.vsnl.net.in>:
>> > Dear Stovers,
>> > We now have a charcoal making stove made from a single 200 litre barrel. It
>> > works exactly like Paul Anderson's Champion stove. In the new version, the
>> > heat for the process is provided by partially burning the biomass to be
>> > charred. We get per batch 2 kg or 30 to 33% recovery of char. The heat
>> > generated by burning the volatiles can be used for cooking or for water
>> > heating, if the stove is used in one place. But if it is taken around to
>> > different locations in order to char the biomass available at that location,
>> > the heat is wasted.
>> > A.D.Karve