Re: open fires can be great!

["Das" <das@eagle-access.net>]

I just did two rough tests on a stove loaned to me by Tom Reed.  I boiled 2
cups of water in 5 minutes using 2.5 ounces wood chips in one run and 1.25
ounces of sawdust pellets in the second run. The charcoal remaining at the
end of pyrolysis was 1 ounce poured into a closed container to cool.  This
is a net gain in charcoal available to be put to its best use (charcoal to
sell, to use, or to add to the soil).  

A. Das
Original Sources/Biomass Energy Foundation
Box 7137, Boulder, CO 80306
das@eagle-access.net

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> From: Harmon Seaver <hseaver@cybershamanix.com>
> To: Dean Still <dstill@epud.net>
> Cc: Peter Singfield <snkm@btl.net>; stoves@crest.org
> Subject: Re: open fires can be great!
> Date: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:42 PM
> 
>    I think Peter needs to build himself a little Reed/Larson IDD stove
out of
> tin cans and see for himself what a mind blowing experience it is to
watch such
> a tiny amount of wood burn so hot for 30-45 minutes. That handful of
twigs or
> wood pellets would be only the kindling to get an open fire burning.
>    Admittedly, I didn't grow up in a village where they cooked over open
fires
> for thousands of years, but I have done an awful lot of cooking on
woodstoves,
> and also periodically on open fires when camping, and frankly I don't
even much
> care for sitting around an open fire when camping, let alone cook on one.
But
> both my wife and I would much rather have a wood cookstove than a gas or
> electric one, and now that I know how to build a really efficient small
> (IDD) stove, even just making a quick cup of tea wouldn't be much of a
hassle.  
> 
>  -- 
> Harmon Seaver	
> CyberShamanix
> http://www.cybershamanix.com
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