Re: SB: Re: wood stoves for sb

[Norbert Senf <mheat@mha-net.org>]

At 08:06 PM 2001-07-24 -0700, John Swearingen wrote:
>(snip)... perhaps Rum Tom has forgotten his California Straw-bale 
>History:  the large governmental impetus for straw-building is based upon 
>the Air Quality Resource Board's disapproval of extensive burning of rice 
>straw because of the toxic pollution thus generated.  Any other ideas?
>

Rice straw is the same as wood or any other cellulose biomass. Smolder it 
(burn it in the fields) and it is dirty.
Compress it into pellet fuel and burn it in a pellet stove, and it is clean 
as a whistle.

Best ..... Norbert
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