[Stoves] Days 4 and 5 (Monday and Tuesday)

[Ronal W. Larson]

List:

Monday:
	This is short note - written partly for those who went on to Aprovecho  and those who have been there in the past.  But the main purpose is to encourage others to think about similarly spending a few days at Apro - because there was a decision today to have a similar event prior to the upcoming August-2016 Biochar Conference in Corvallis Oregon.  More coming later on those details.

	Sunday night (day 3) was again at the Baymont for most of those named here.  I travelled on Monday AM to visit Burn Design Lab (on Vachon Island) with Paul Anderson, Dave Lello (South Africa), and Ricardo Gamadaric (Portugal).   Meeting there Dale Andreatta and  Christa Roth, who will be at Burn for a few days.  Hosts at Burn were Peter Scott and Paul Means.  They provided an introduction to current Burn activities in Kenya (producing now about 600 stoves per day - of four types).  Staff in Kenya about 80  (I recall).  One interesting event was being able to see the inside of the Mimi-Moto (means “My Fire”), that was mentioned as having good performance in this thread.  All were impressed on the many layers of insulation, for instance.

	Left after a few hours at Burn - striving to get to home (staying overnight) of Flip and Jon Anderson, near Corvallis, Oregon.   Talk of course mostly of stove and biochar topics during day. Received great dinner.

Tuesday: 
	Great breakfast from Flip.  Tour of their “barn” with numerous stoves of all types (and as many ovens- their specialty).  Learned of Jon’s wild seed-collection business (Jonny Native Seed).	
	Now 7 people travel to Apro in 3 cars  (adding Joe James; Jon, Flip) - there meeting Dean Still, and Sam Bentson of Apro and other testers  (Arnold Oliphant,
Cristal Cheong (Malawi) and Kirk Harris) - who had preceded us.  Larry Winiarski came later in the day.  So, all afternoon, a total of 13 at two test stations.   Meeting until before lunch.
	These two facilities were kept running on quick-turnaround basis all afternoon (plus others outside testing).  About 5:00 PM,  I heard Sam Bentsen say 10 tests had been conducted; none of publishable quality, but all informative.  
	Typical discussion topic:  how to call the later and upper parts of a TLUD?  Comments requested on respectively:  CPZ (char-gas production zone) and CCZ (char-gas combustion zone).  Justification for the new hyphenated word  (“char-gas”):  trying to put equal emphasis on the char and on the gas.  CPZ could be CGZ, with G for generation?   I have to hyphenate because as one word, my spell-checker insists on “charges”/
	 Sandwich lunch and spaghetti dinner (this with half dozen others from the Aprovecho “family”).






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