[Stoves] MUST CHARCOAL BE A CAUSE FOR CONCERN?

[Anand Karve]

Dear Yuri,
can you give detailes of the well calcined Japanese coal?
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Yury Yudkevich <charwood at rambler.ru> wrote:

> Dear stoves,
> Otto write:
>
> Dear Kevin,
> what you actually are "saying" is that people in developing countries have
> no common sense and knowledge about polution from open fires.............
> Why do they use open fires for cooking?
> The most ovious reason is that they have no choice or options.
> Secondly, this is how it has been done for centuries.
> It "works", why change?
> The women do the collecting of wood and the cooking, so why bather........
>
> There is also no question about that even the best and most efficient
> charcoal stoves (without a chimmny) emitts far more CO than any TLUD
> gasifier stove.
> The other fact is that CO also kills people in the "western" world as well
> by "missuse" of gas for heating and cooking, but it does not mean that we
> should stop using it!
> BUT we should be VERY carefull by using open flames indoors without good
> ventilation.
> This is something we learn in school at early age.
> If any positive progress should be "stoped" by missuse of just a few there
> is no way the "World" are going to move "forward", ever.
> Otto
>
>
> I agree with the position of Otto. I want to remind you about the wonderful
> invention of the ancient Japanese - furnace Hibatsi. Well calcined charcoal
> can be safely burned in the open hearth indoors with proper air supply.
> Thank you
> Yury Yudkevich.  charwood at rambler.ru
> http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/stovesdoc/Yudkevitch/charcoal/
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