[Stoves] wheat husk pellets

[Paul Olivier]

Alex,

You say: *Visions of pyrolysis stoves in the kitchens of North America are
borderline male fantasy. *Be realistic. Do you have any other other
alternative to the use of fossil fuels? Such a double standard: we use
fossil fuels to cook our meals and we expect poor people to use biomass
fuels.
Yes, you can start with the patio and then later move indoors as you
acquire more skill in operating the unit. Also, at this early stage in the
evolution of the technology, I would not recommend doing away with your gas
stove. Leave it there, but try to use your biomass stove as much as
possible.
Pellets are available at so many retail outlets in the USA, and they are so
easy to handle. I think that there are many households along the West coast
who would be happy to break away from the stranglehold of Big Oil.

In my kitchen I have not yet set up a hood and fan. So I will operate the
pellet gasifier in my living room on a small coffee table. All that I have
to do is to open up the two big windows in the living room. The problem
that I have had all along was dealing with loose rice hulls. I have no
place to store a large sack of rice hulls in my house, and I dislike having
to load them into the reactor: they are so dusty and dirty. With pellets
this problem is solved.

Thanks.
Paul

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Alex English <english at kingston.net> wrote:

> All Pauls and all,
>
> Interesting subject title. Having grown,combined,ground,sifted wheat and
> burned wheat 'berries" and wheat short blended pellets at times over the
> past 35 years, this is the first time I have heard the term 'wheat husk'.
> My failure to separate husk from chaff.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wheat_middlings<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_middlings>
>
> We can buy into energy conspiracies but they only go so far. Having
> watched greenhouse boiler fuel gyrations during energy price spikes, I can
> pull my head out of the oven and tell you that cleaning and maintaining a
> 'natural' gas fired boiler is as close to the 'aspirational' desk job as a
> farmer gets. A boiler fired with oat-hull/wheat-short blended pellets is
> continueally coated with sticky ash. It all makes work for the working-man
> to do, or avoid doing. Opposite ends of a fuel spectrum with labor and
> equipment  costs playing a huge role in the decision. Where is that
> spreadsheet?
>
> There are quite a few pellet mills experiments around and most are having
> significant difficulties with ag residues and energy crops. Youtube videos
> only go so far, but its early days, or decades.
>
>
> Visions of pyrolysis stoves in the kitchens of North America are
> borderline male fantasy. Try the patio dadios first. That will be a tough
> enough sell. Not enough smoke flavor.
>
> A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's pyrolysis for?
>
> "That's nice, now take it outside dear, I have a meal to prepare, and also
> the insurance company said no" :)
>
>
> But your rice hull stove still seems like a pretty good niche. At least
> from a distance.
>
> Alex in Wonderfulland.
> A practitioner of the combustion arts and letters.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11/06/2013 10:37 PM, Paul Olivier wrote:
>
>> Yes, Otto, you are right.
>>
>> Big Oil receives subsides from the US government. Its lobbying effort is
>> colossal. It has succeeded in convincing most of us that it has all the
>> answers. The infrastructure it has set up is vigilantly supported by the US
>> military. In our design of stoves, we should do everything we can to make
>> sure that we are not taken in by their lies. As Shell Oil, says in an
>> advertisement: "We at Shell believe that the world should have a broader
>> mix of energies". And then they point to natural gas.
>>
>> Paul Olivier
>>
>>
>>
>
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