[Stoves] Biomass Cooking Stoves Site in Back Online

[Richard Stanley]

....Or, maybe we do not need any wood biomass at all...
R Stanley
www.legacyfound.org

On Mar 6, 2007, at 20:37, Choppalli Venkata Krishna wrote:

>   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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