[Stoves] News: National Geographic on promotion of gas stoves over improved woodstoves - in Guatemala

Andrew Heggie aj.heggie at gmail.com
Wed Sep 6 14:52:30 CDT 2017


> From: Gordon West
> To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> Cc:
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> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 10:33:07 -0600
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> In a fan forced draft TLUD, it is very easy to control the amount of
> feedstock involved in the pyrolysis zone at any given time (by controlling
> primary air), and thus how much fuel (smoke) is available for cooking.
> Secondary air for complete combustion of the smoke is also easy to control.
>
> Bill and I have fabricated one variation of the ‘Charbecue’ that has an
> insulated well above the combustion chamber (better heat transfer) that
> holds a pressure cooker. In the trial run, it cooked a bag of beans from
> dry to mushy in 15 minutes. I don’t recall how long it took to get to
> boiling, but it wasn’t long.
>
> A photo is attached, I hope it isn’t too large (what are the limitations
> for images?)
>
> Gordon West
> The Trollworks
>
> Gordon the body of the message was too large and thus trapped by the
listbot, the body is limited to 1500 kil bytes.

So not only was your picture too large but some overhead was attributable
to the trail of previous mails in the thread which you included.

I have attached a reduced version

Andrew
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