<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Crispin and list </div><div><br></div><div> see below</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Feb 27, 2014, at 2:19 PM, Crispin Pembert-Pigott <<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-CA" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear Friends<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Lovely story from Josiah Hunt.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.biochar-international.org/projects_Peru_Josiah_Hunt" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">http://www.biochar-international.org/projects_Peru_Josiah_Hunt</a></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div> <b>[RWL: I had not seen this video before. It is fairly new and I recommend it, although very little on biochar. But Josiah's observations about seeing biochar used as a common practice is very important. I have not previously seen that in print for Peru. </b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I have been to some of the places shown (Machu Pichu? and others much more remote closer to the ocean) and kick myself for not having looked for what Josiah saw and has here reported on.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Josiah is one of the best spokespersons we have for biochar. Look at his TED talk at </b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWbomZJn83U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWbomZJn83U</a>.</div><div>That one focuses on improved ag performance. Look at the way he produces char at:</div><div> <a href="http://hawaiibiochar.com/biochar-burn-demonstration/">http://hawaiibiochar.com/biochar-burn-demonstration/</a></div><div>which I got to from Kelpie Wilson’s nice site: <a href="http://www.greenyourhead.com/kilns/">http://www.greenyourhead.com/kilns/</a></div><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-CA" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Wood fired ovens and cooking fire generate charcoal naturally. It has been placed into the local garden soils for a very long time, according to tradition.</div></div></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>[RWL: And we are learning how to do it over again with greater efficiency with any cook able to earn money (zero cost for cooking) by making char on TLUDs and similar stoves.</b><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-CA" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Question for Ron Larsen: is the wood fraction consumed to make such charcoal part and parcel of the fuel consumption of the stove, or not? If we can agree on the answer to that question, we will achieve much.</div></div></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>[</b>RWL: <b>Hope this is not a trick question - but “Yes”. I can’t see why you ask. Ron]</b><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-CA" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Regards<br>Crispin<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></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: rgb(149, 79, 114); 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: rgb(149, 79, 114); 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://stoves.bioenergylists.org/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/</a></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>