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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Paul,<br>
I am unsure that sufficient alternatives to fossil fuels and
human hubris are forth coming.<br>
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I drive a car.<br>
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Alex<br>
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On 12/06/2013 7:28 PM, Paul Olivier wrote:<br>
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You say: <i>Visions of pyrolysis stoves in the kitchens of
North America are borderline male fantasy. </i>Be realistic.
Do you have any other other alternative to the use of fossil
fuels? Such a double standard: we use fossil fuels to cook our
meals and we expect poor people to use biomass fuels.<br>
<div class="gmail_extra">Yes, you can start with the patio and
then later move indoors as you acquire more skill in operating
the unit. Also, at this early stage in the evolution of the
technology, I would not recommend doing away with your gas
stove. Leave it there, but try to use your biomass stove as
much as possible.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Pellets are available at so many retail
outlets in the USA, and they are so easy to handle. I think
that there are many households along the West coast who would
be happy to break away from the stranglehold of Big Oil.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">In my kitchen I have not yet set up a
hood and fan. So I will operate the pellet gasifier in my
living room on a small coffee table. All that I have to do is
to open up the two big windows in the living room. The problem
that I have had all along was dealing with loose rice hulls. I
have no place to store a large sack of rice hulls in my house,
and I dislike having to load them into the reactor: they are
so dusty and dirty. With pellets this problem is solved.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Thanks.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Paul<br>
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