[Stoves] Biomass Cooking Stoves Site in Back Online

Tue Mar 6 22:37:56 CST 2007

  Dear Patrick
I am subject to correction in saying that 'If you process/burn 100 Kgs of wood, you get 15 Kgs of charcoal". However, the Heat value difference of char coal and a 10% dry wood will be 2000 Kcal.Now denudation of forest and impact on tree cutting is well known to all of us. Why can't we approach with a stove that uses least wood and a device to it making it smoke free and ultimately make sure for the adoption of the stove by the women?
Jico stove of Kenya undoubtedly is popular and smoke free - but at what cost of the Forest denudation? We the stovers should ,hence, my opinion, that priortise the wood burning in an improved smoke free stove followed by gasification of wood.
-C.V.Krishna


On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 cornelio torrijos wrote :
>Hi all,
>
>More than 9 million families in the Philippines use LPG more than double the
>number in 1995. Some 5.5 million households use charcoal. Another 9 million
>families mostly in rural areas also use firewood for cooking.
>
>Should more families be encouraged to use charcoal also? Many families use
>both LPG and charcoal for cooking.
>
>Here a kilo of LPG costs about one US dollar. Sometimes when the LPG tank is
>empty, the family may not have the ten or eleven dollars to buy a new tank
>(metal bottle) of LPG (propane). At what price should a kilo of wood
>charcoal be to make it more economical than LPG?
>
>Metal clad cement charcoal stoves sell for three US dollars. Metal only
>charcoal stoves also sell for the same amount.
>
>Cornel
>
>On 3/6/07, PQ972 at aol.com <PQ972 at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > Tom thanks for all the good work you're doing
> >
> > Patrick T.  Quinn
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