[Stoves] Could barbecues help fight climate change?

[vetle cappelen]

Dear Lloyd!

I Do think barbecues can help fighting the climate change. By adding environmental friendly fuel also to the "every day" usage as barbecue or heating, we all will contribute and show our support (the little we can as private people) to fight the negative climate changes. In a kind of fun way.

Not only to reduce the CO2 emissions, but also for the disposable waste. Here in Norway, it´s a huge problem during the summer time when people are using disposable barbecues and are just leaving them behind. Every year over 200 ton of residual waste are generated in parks and in the nature.

I´m working on a portable natural draft barbecue that are using pellet as fuel. I see a lot of advantages, it´s: cheaper fuel, environment friendly, no smoke, starts directly, not only for the meat and vegetables but also to cook water for the potatoes and rice. 

Barbecuing will for sure not give the enormous impact to make the world less carbon negative, maybe not at all. But hey! Lets agree: It´s better to do something...  than nothing!?

Best Regards
Vetle Cappelen



> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:46:33 -0500
> From: lhelferty at sympatico.ca
> To: biochar-ontario at googlegroups.com; stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
> Subject: [Stoves] Could barbecues help fight climate change?
> 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/oct/21/barbecues-climate-change
> October 21, 2010
> 
> Durwood Zaelke's emergency plan for tackling climate change ranges from 
> the Montreal protocol to carbon-negative barbecues
> 
> Barbecues that remove CO2 from the air could play a role in the fight 
> against climate change according to Durwood Zaelke, a leading expert on 
> rapid responses to global warming.
> 
> This year's outdoor cooking season might be over, but Zaelke suggested 
> at last week's 10:10 talk that from next summer consumers should start 
> demanding barbecues that do their bit for the planet by generating 
> rather than consuming charcoal – or biochar.
> 
> Zaelke's idea is based on a stove designed for use in the developing 
> world by Rob Flanagan. The stove creates heat by turning wood or other 
> biomass into charcoal, a process that releases combustible gases.
> 
> Once the cooking is over, most of the carbon from the fuel remains in 
> the stove in the form of charcoal. This can then be mixed in with soil, 
> a process that sequesters the carbon for thousands of years and boosts 
> crop productivity.
> 
> ... But whatever we do with non-CO2 gases, Zaelke says, we also urgently 
> need not just to reduce carbon dioxide, but to get to a point as soon as 
> possible where the world becomes carbon negative, with humans 
> sequestering more CO2 than we release. "That might sound crazy," he 
> says, "but we could do it".
> 
> The biochar barbecue idea is, I guess, really just a way for Zaelke to 
> remind us that there are various techniques – on big and small scales – 
> that we could use to suck CO2 out of the air.
> 
> -- 
> 
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