[Greenbuilding] between a rock and a shoulder season

[Erin Rasmussen]

It's an interesting premise, but there have been big leaps forward in both heating and efficiency in 'improved biomass' stoves and the more modern stoves we're used to in the store since some of the studies he uses as references were done. 

 

GiZ (funded by the German people) has an amazing energy reference  called Energypedia  https://energypedia.info/wiki/Main_Page

my favorite clean cooking stove reference, updated this year: 

https://energypedia.info/wiki/File:Micro_Gasification_2.0_Cooking_with_gas_from_dry_biomass.pdf

If you don't know about Hedon, take a look  it's very good: http://hedon.info/tiki-index.php

 

We are hampered a bit by what we're accustomed to.  Thankfully, some other communities get to just leapfrog over our technology and skip straight to the improved options. 

-Erin 

 

 

From: Greenbuilding [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Reuben Deumling
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 9:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] between a rock and a shoulder season

 

Lowtech  magazine just published a piece on a related issue: efficiency of cooking with different fuels:
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/06/thermal-efficiency-cooking-stoves.html

"Converting heat into electricity which is then converted back into heat, at 20-40% efficiency, is similar to building a Rube Goldberg machine; it's a needlessly complex operation compared to simply converting the primary fuel into heat to boil water. Essentially, any electric cooking device is an insult to the science of thermodynamics."



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