Re: SB: Re: wood stoves for sb

["John Swearingen" <john@skillful-means.com>]

In principal there is of course a big difference between smoulding straw in
a field and brightly glowing pellets, but as I understand it, one of the
obstacles to large-scale use of rice straw as biomass for generating
electricity has been that even when very efficiently burned, some toxic
wastes are generated...but I could be wrong.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Norbert Senf" <mheat@mha-net.org>
To: <strawbale@crest.org>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 4:16 AM
Subject: Re: SB: Re: wood stoves for sb


> 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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