Deer Scat Fuel

["Tom Reed" <tombreed@attbi.com>]

Dear Stovers;

What's brown and sounds like a bell?*

While Gretchen Larson and Vivian Reed so most of our cooking with kW or gas
from Colorado Public Service, we know that not everyone has such
infrastructure.

Dung has many uses in India and is a pretty good fuel.  Cow patties fueled
the pioneers cooking as they crossed the prairies.  Animals have the
patience to collect grass (a terrible, low density fuel) and densify it.
Dung contains a significnt amount of fatty acids, high in fuel value.

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Ron and I don't have access to dung.  However, we are surrounded by herds of
deer and elk.  The deer pelletize their scat in very neat, separate black
pellets about 1.5 cm in diameter.  Yesterday Vivian and I collected 0.65 kg
of these elegant fuel pellets, in their fresh wet (but hard) state.

The bulk density (wet)  is 0.26 g/liter.

The moisture content is 35% (wet basis, by drying at 110 C for 2 hours).  So
dry bulk density is 0.17, comparable to wood chips.

I am waiting for a sample to dry naturally to see what the equilibrium
(Denver) MC is.

I haven't tried them in the WoodGas CampStove yet, but will report back when
I do.

Different strokes for different folks...

Onward,                     TOM REED                       BEF STOVEWORKS

* DUNG

Dr. Thomas B. Reed
1810 Smith Rd., Golden, CO 80401
tombreed@attbi.com; 303 278 0558 Phone/Fax
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