[Stoves] CO- and Oxygen-affinity to haemoglobine

[Bruce Stahlberg]

Pardon my ignorance but is it normal to breathe out carbon monoxide out of 
our bodies?  Where is the CO coming from? I have never heard that we 
naturally create a gas which we normally want to avoid.

I have heard that smokers will breathe out CO but that would explain how it 
got there.  Of course in urban settings with lots of car exhaust we could 
also potentially have CO in our system but that concept just caught me by 
surprise.

A clarification would be helpful.   Thanks.

Bruce

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Crispin Pemberton-Pigott" <crispinpigott at gmail.com>
To: "'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves'" 
<stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Stoves] CO- and Oxygen-affinity to haemoglobine


> Hi Ron
>
> By using a calibrated combustion analyser.
>
> We breathe out far more CO than we breathe in. Actually I didn't test my
> combustion efficiency. I will get a CO/CO2 ratio for myself sometime.
>
> Regards
> Crispin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Sorry, Crispin, but I'm confused:  how do you know what you're breathing 
> out
> and whether the analyzer is registering CO or something different?
>
> regards,
> ron
> w
> h
>
>
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