<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Paul et al:<div><br></div><div>I hope more people will consider alternatives to wood biomass as fuel. Combusted wood does not sequester carbon, but simply returns it to the atmosphere from whence it came.</div><div><br></div><div>Question: What is the value of charcoal? Is it more valuable as a soil amendment for increasing crop yield or as a fuel? </div><div><br></div><div>Question: Can we put a value on sequestering a stable form of carbon that will remain sequestered for many times longer than carbon in biomass?</div><div><br></div><div>That is, we have to try to include the entire system in our evaluation, not simply selected bits.</div><div><br></div><div>Jock</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 8, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Paul Anderson <<a href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu">psanders@ilstu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dale and all,<br>
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Thank you for your input, especially the quantitative parts. I
confirm and agree with your comments, such as about 1 inch maximum
of diameter of wood in the residential size TLUDs.<br>
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I hope that more people will be considering alternatives to
charcoal. <br>
<br>
Paul<br>
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On 4/8/2013 4:09 PM, Andreatta, Dale A. wrote:<br>
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<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">At
the recent ETHOS conference Paul Means and Chris Lanning
gave a very thought-provoking talk about an alternative to
charcoal. The basic idea was to use a gasifying stove with
prepared wood fuel. The prepared wood fuel would be bought
by the user instead of charcoal, and the supply chain would
be similar to charcoal. The big advantage is that the very
inefficient step of charcoal production is eliminated. The
stove would hopefully be easy to use and would smoke very
little, so as to retain the benefits of a charcoal stove. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span></p></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>