[Stoves] Jatropha and its future

[Fireside Hearth]

Interesting idea........Are the any records kept on how cleanly and or how much maintenance might be involved. Example.....corn feed stoves have allot of klinkering due to the sugar content if I understand correctly. We might be able to utilize more of these fuels than I realize at this point as I have not had enough time to test these things out. Our focus has had to stay more narrow than I would like due to the "business side" of our growth. I did for a while mess with burning Glycerine from bio diesel manufacturing. Althoe I have not dismissed this avenue I do feel it is a messy process. The glycerine heats up and "melts" much like paraffin wax and could become a fire hazard. I am interested as I am coming to a point of less business and more inventing to try alternative fuel sources......any ideas???
Thank you R&B  

From: crispinpigott at gmail.com
To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 14:36:59 -0400
Subject: [Stoves] Jatropha and its future



Dear FriendsI am not sure how many stove are being worked on as Jatropha seed or oil or cake burners, but my understanding was the main thrust was to put to use some of the leftovers from biofuel production, especially that was the focus in Tanzania.It seems those farmers who invested in Jatropha production lost about $65 per ha http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es201943v so my question is whether or not there is much point in working on (perhaps) whole seed stoves. Perhaps if the J-oil industry suffers a quick death there will still be a meaningful supply of oily seed fuel that  can be burned relatively easily with a decent performance and controllability. At least until they go back to sunflower which looks a lot more promising.Has anyone made a sunflower seed burning stove? The oil runs up to 49% on some varieties.Always looking for new ideas…RegardsCrispin  
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