Fwd: Re: Chimney info

[Peter Verhaart <pverhaart@optusnet.com.au>]

As usual I forgot to CC this to the Stoves List.
I also forgot to mention that Larry Winiarsky's Rocket Stove could very 
likely, for the same reason, be used indoors without a chimney.
Piet
>Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 21:03:37 +1000
>To: "Paul S. Anderson" <psanders@ilstu.edu>
>From: Peter Verhaart <pverhaart@optusnet.com.au>
>Subject: Re: Chimney info
>
>At 14:13 23/04/02 -0500, you wrote:
>>Stovers,
>>
>>My local newspaper carried the following short item is "Grab Bag" by L.M. 
>>Boyd:
>>
>>"In William Shakespeare's day, houses didn't have chimneys.  Fires, yes. 
>>Chimneys, no.  Or if any did, they were most exceptional."
>>
>>Certainly the "chimney innovation" has not reached all of the 
>>impoverished homes in the world.  It makes you wonder if a Shell 
>>Foundation grant for "Household energy and health" could be put together 
>>just about chimneys.
>>
>>But then again, the "burners" on modern stoves (not counting ovens with 
>>flues to vent the gasses) do not require chimneys.  Therefore, it seems 
>>to follow that clean burning of fuels (defined as the levels similar to 
>>operating a modern LPG - gas stove-top??) is all that is necessary to 
>>eliminate the need for chimneys.
>
>Yes. Complete burning of wood, as took place in the Downdraft stove, does 
>not need a chimney to dump noxious gases outside the kitchen. The CO/CO2 
>ratio we measured in Eindhoven was significantly below that for kerosene 
>burners used indoors.
>
>Peter Verhaart


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