[Stoves] wheat husk pellets

[Alex English]

Paul,
  I am unsure that sufficient alternatives to fossil fuels and human 
hubris are forth coming.

I drive a car.

Alex


On 12/06/2013 7:28 PM, Paul Olivier wrote:
> 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
>

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