<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Andrew, Dieter, and list:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I still remain hopeful that we can find a thermal storage system that can be used with a combined solar-biochar system. I have one contact expert still to talk to.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Anyone else have reason still to hope that thermal storage might work?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ron</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 30, 2017, at 3:06 AM, Andrew Heggie <<a href="mailto:aj.heggie@gmail.com" class="">aj.heggie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>. <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 January 2017 at 05:29, Dr. Dieter Seifert <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:doseifert@googlemail.com" target="_blank" class="">doseifert@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" class="">30 years ago, I installed a photovoltaic
lighting in a Spanish farmhouse,
owned by the family who received me as an 8 years old child in
1950 for 9
months, when Germany was in ruins and my family with five
persons had a living
space of 9 square meters. The installation in Murcia had a 40
Watt panel with a
simple 2-axis tracking device. </span><span lang="EN-US" class="">A
SK-parabolic solar cooker
(600 Watt) served for comfortable cooking (of course in
combination with a hay
basket) and we saved quite totally the consumption of LPG. </span><span lang="EN" class=""> </span></p></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dieter<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Has the technology for solar cooking moved on much from your Spanish installation?<br class=""></div><div class="">What conditions, latitudes etc. make solar cooking deployable, Here at 51 degrees North and a maritime climate I doubt there are more than a handful of days I could rely on it.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I for one find solar cooking interesting and it is probably relevant for [stoves] to be kept informed, discussion of other issues about the human condition are best discussed elsewhere.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andrew<br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div></div>
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