[Stoves] wheat husk pellets

[Paul Olivier]

I drive a motorbike which hopefully one day will be fueled with methanol
derived from syngas derived in turn from invasive plants.
On Jun 13, 2013 9:41 AM, "Alex English" <english at kingston.net> wrote:

>  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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