<html><head><base href="x-msg://15/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Crispin,<div><br></div><div>Actually we all receive an average of 1.5 lbs of junk mail every day here in Obamaland.<div>Free fuel frankly,</div><div>May be passing out us Dollars for fuel too but that is a bit far off as yet..</div><div>Richard Stanley</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 25, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0mm; margin-left: 0mm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Dear Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0mm; margin-left: 0mm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Actually currency burns quite well. I think everyone who has ever made a briquette has probably made one out of shredded currency.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0mm; margin-left: 0mm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Hmm…I know we burn up a lot of money but that would be a new fuel source, in my neighbourhood.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0mm; margin-left: 0mm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">One of the things that surprised me in Maputo was the regular burning of money in the ceramic kilns we were renting. Every now and then each major kiln owner was contacted for a special burn. They arrive in an enormous truck loaded with money. It is loaded into a brick kiln, typically of an older type (not a Hoffman) and, surrounded by soldiers, it is set alight.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0mm; margin-left: 0mm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">The remains is a thick, white, powdery ash layer on the bottom of the kiln. I presume this is kaolin, added to the cloth and paper to give it high resolution printability. I am not sure about the heat gain from burning money briquettes. The energy content would probably be in the 12-15 MJ/kg range, based on the fact it is biomass diluted with clay.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0mm; margin-left: 0mm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Another common use is that which, in rural America in the 40’s, awaited newspaper strips and the annual Sear and Roebuck catalogue, back behind the main house.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0mm; margin-left: 0mm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0mm; margin-left: 0mm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Crispin back in rainy Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p></div>_______________________________________________<br>Stoves mailing list<br><br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br><a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site:<br><a href="http://www.bioenergylists.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.bioenergylists.org/</a><br><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>