[Stoves] New model WoodGas Campstove

[Thomas Reed]

Dear Stoves and Gasification:

Our WoodGas Campstove has now become a thing of beauty as well as 
utility.   See our new pictures at

http://www.woodgas.com/bookSTOVE.htm


It has always been our intention to get woodgas stoves into the hands of 
those that need it most - and can afford it least.  We are happy to see 
many people experimenting with WoodGas stoves and I hope that an 
apartment sized stove will appear soon, since poor city people have the 
double problem of indoor cooking, usually with kerosene or propane, and 
the rising costs of hydrocarbon fuels. 

While our campstove will burn almost any biomass, it particularly likes 
pellets AND seeds, nuts, etc. that aren't usually considered to be fuels. 

(And how about dung with a little processing?  The deer in our area turn 
out a beautiful pelletized product.) 
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While the campstove is great for cooking, it can also be used as a very 
simple gasifier by putting in an aluminum (flashing) sleeve to eliminate 
the secondary combustion air holes.  I should stress that the "WoodGas" 
is primarily the products of pyrolysis and as such has a heat content of 
7-9 MJ/m3, rather than the 5-6 characteristic of complete gasification.

Yours for Biomass Gasification and cooking,

TOM REED              THE BIOMASS ENERGY FOUNDATION