[Stoves] Stoves Digest, Vol 80, Issue 1

[Norman Baker]

Well said Dr TLUD!

Norm Baker

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 11:00 AM, <stoves-request at lists.bioenergylists.org>
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>    1. Research errors continue, but TLUDs are NOT charcoal-burning
>       stoves (Paul Anderson)
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> Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 10:42:17 -0500
> From: Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu>
> To: Stoves and biofuels network <Stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> Subject: [Stoves] Research errors continue, but TLUDs are NOT
>         charcoal-burning stoves
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> Dear Stovers,
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> I have been asked to review an academic research article about about
> gasifier stoves.  I will not identify the journal, title or give the
> abstract that I have read.
>
> More than once I have seen the type of error mentioned below. Academic
> reserachers are not stove users, but they think they understand
> everything.  Basically, they make faulty assumptions. The do MUCH work,
> of which 30% to 60% should not have been done, and then they want to
> publish it.
>
> My objective in this message is to spread the word to everyone, and to
> not be the reviewer who can only relay anonymous comments to a couple of
> people can ignore them or be overridden byt the journal editors, and
> months from now it gets printed, and THEN I would need to send this
> message.
>
> This is what I sent back to the editors of the journal.
>
> I decline to be a reviewer because I feel that there are fundamental
> misconceptions of how these TLUD (micro-gasifiers) should be used. For
> example (and specifically about this article), there should NOT be any
> "second stage" which is the combustion of the charcoal after pyrolysis
> has finished.  That means that about 40% of the research should not even
> have been conducted, and certainly not reported in the article.  As
> written, this misleads stove users.  I am sure that other reviewers (who
> are researchers as are the authors) will accept the manuscript, because
> they do not know TLUD stove usage, or that charcoal burning should be
> very near the pot, not down many centimeters where the charcoal would be
> burned in a TLUD stove.  I am thankful for research being done because
> some (60%) of the work is worthwhile, but I do not want to be a reviewer
> of such work.  You may share my comments and name with the authors.
> Paul S. Anderson, PhD.  Known as "Dr TLUD"  psanders at ilstu.edu
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> Paul
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