[Stoves] Stoves in China

[Ron Larson]

Crispin:

Tsk tsk -  I am surprised you wondered today about chacoal having value (a 
little of your message kept below).

    Come visit the "terrapreta" sister site and you will find dozens of 
people looking for some charcoal.

     The biochar field is coming along nicely and I still feel 
charcoal-making stoves are going to be a great income source for developing 
country cooks.

Ron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Crispin Pemberton-Pigott" <crispinpigott at gmail.com>
To: "'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves'" <stoves at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Stoves in China


> Dear Paul
>
> I think it is important that you try the results of a few old stove tests 
> in
>
                <snip>

> There is a question you will have to address which is what happens to the
> char removed from the gasifier.  If it is 'useful' then it can be counted 
> as
> 'not burned' but if the resulting char has to be thrown away without
> benefit, it can be viewed as having been consumed. We talked about this 
> once
> a couple of years ago.
>
> If you are doing a test of a stove development you will be interested in 
> the
> total thermal efficiency at certain times and won't worry about the char.

                <snip>