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    <p>Hi All,</p>
    <p><b class="">"We still don’t have an explanation why."</b></p>
    <p><span class="">I'll give it a shot.</span><b class="">  </b><span
        class="">Going back to the fire triangle telling us what is
        necessary for a fire, we need fuel, oxygen, and heat.  I also
        like to add mixing and time because fuel and oxygen cannot burn
        if they don't come into contact with each other (mixing), and
        chemical reactions take some time to occur.  Which of these is
        being effected by the stones?  Certainly there is more oxygen
        because air is able to pass between the stones to feed the fire
        from below.  A fire on a solid surface may loose heat to that
        surface, and the stones would reduce that surface, keeping more
        heat in the fire.  Char may fall between the stones giving more
        surface area for burning, increasing mixing.  All of these could
        increase the heat, keeping a flame burning above the charcoal,
        unless the cooking vessel is placed directly on the charcoal,
        which would extinguish the flame.  If there is a CO flame above
        the charcoal then the CO, which is a flammable fuel, will be
        burned, eliminating it from the exhaust, and increasing the
        available cooking heat.  </span></p>
    <p>Kirk H.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/3/2019 7:59 AM, Ronal Larson
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                of the pros and cons of making and cooking with
                charcoal, charcoal will be used for cooking by many,
                many people for decades to come.  Isn't the vast
                majority of charcoal produced in the same dirty way it
                was produced a fifty years ago?  And doesn't the vast
                majority cook with charcoal essentially the same way as
                fifty years ago?  Let's find more methods to improve
                both production and usage, methods that people will
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          cooking with charcoal”).   So below,  I excise everything
          except Kevin’s surprising announcement from four countries
           (Zambia,  Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya) ]that adding rocks and
          extra grates (no cost and low cost respectively) apparently
          gave MUCH (>40%) improved cooking performance.   We still
          don’t have an explanation why.  Kevin is doing more tests.
           Can anyone else help with trying to optimize these two new
          stove ideas?</b></div>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Dear Friends</span></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">I like the
                        discussion about what to test for, and what to
                        measure, and how, and where results should
                        lead.  It has been a long time since an open
                        discussion was held. We have had years of
                        advocacy for a particular method, not what is
                        needed leading to a test designed to do that.
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          class="">[RWL2:  Not sure of the intent here, but I am
          advocating against controlled cooking tests. We must use the
          water boiling test to be able to compare across stove types
          with and without stones and extra grates.</b><br class="">
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Charcoal stoves
                        have many advantages over wood stoves, including
                        benefits of the char as an energy carrier. It is
                        light, easily dried, and doesn’t rot.</span></p>
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          class="">[RWL3:   Yes, char is light, but per unit volume,
          most biomass is superior.  You can put more megajoules via
          wood into any of the 4 char-burners that Kevin has introduced
          than you can via char.  Volumes can be as important as weight.
           The big advantage of a wood stove over a char-using stove is
          that the wood (or other combustibles) can be turned into
          biochar - see next.</b><br class="">
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                        relatively easily ignited. The fact that people
                        crate char wastefully and burn it inefficiently
                        and incompletely is not an attribute of the fuel
                        but of the managers.</span></p>
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          class="">[RWL4:  Agree in part on charcoal stove advantages.
           I think a main one is that, once lit, they don’t need the
          attending that most wood stoves do. (TLUDS don’t need much
          tending).   I am torn on supporting Kevin in studying rocks
          and grates, because the production is so bad (Kevin’s#1 point
          above), and because the charcoal can be so important when
          treated as biochar (dozens of advantages - but mainly energy,
          climate and food).  But I agree with all of Kevin’s points
          above -  ethically we should all be trying to make the
          horrible practice of cooking with charcoal as less evil as we
          can</b>.<b class=""> Cooking while making char is a good topic
          as well - but not in this thread.</b>
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                      popular to say that charcoal makes “a lot of
                      smoke” when it is made, it is only true when
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          class="">[RWL5:  Like Kevin - I worry a lot about how it is
          made - but production is not the theme of this thread</b><br
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                      users of charcoal fuel are cooks in Cambodia. They
                      are effective and frugal and have been doing it
                      for thousands of years. Maybe we can learn
                      something from them.</span></p>
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          class="">[RWL6:  Cambodia could be appropriate - especially if
          they can tell us anything about using rocks or extra grates. A
          cite on Cambodian charcoal being more efficient in usage?  No
          need for a cite in this thread on char production - even via
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Regards</span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Crispin</span></p>
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                          <b class="">Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 30,
                          2019 19:14<br class="">
                          <b class="">To:</b> Discussion of biomass
                          cooking stoves <<a
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                          Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <<a
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                          Kevin McLean > <<a
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                          <b class="">Cc:</b> Christa Roth <<a
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                          <b class="">Subject:</b> Improving cooking
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class="gmail-m_6343832323420919572apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F167i50oweyfe23bRMnDSeJwlu0eM4IgTek6IO2C6JPes%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cd9ec2f74d13049f204fa08d75d8ec8b4%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637080740148782634&sdata=50qonsQ30NwtTdhm1UFaoLnAnRAE3hq0ZQWg%2FFARzJI%3D&reserved=0"
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                                        from Zambia</a><span
                                        class="gmail-m_6343832323420919572apple-converted-space"> </span>indicating
                                      that the rock bed and second metal
                                      grate improve the efficiency of
                                      the Zambian mbaula (all-metal)
                                      charcoal jiko by 41%.  Cooking
                                      time is also greatly reduced. 
                                      While these testers have no
                                      training, their results are
                                      consistent.</span><span
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                                      style="font-size: 12pt;
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                                      sans-serif;" class="">This is such
                                      a simple modification that
                                      dissemination could be very
                                      rapid.  I hope some of you can try
                                      this. </span><span
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                                      10, 2019 at 1:37 PM K McLean <<a
                                        href="mailto:info@sun24.solar"
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                                            style="background:white"><span
                                              style="font-size: 12pt;
                                              font-family: Helvetica,
                                              sans-serif;" class="">Has
                                              anyone tried this?</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span></p>
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                                              style="background:white"><span
                                                style="font-size: 12pt;
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                                                sans-serif;" class="">We
                                                seem to have
                                                significantly increased
                                                the efficiency of
                                                charcoal jikos by
                                                putting a bed of rocks
                                                on the jiko's grate and
                                                putting second metal
                                                grate on the rock bed. 
                                                The charcoal goes on the
                                                second metal grate. 
                                                 2-3 cm rocks work.  It
                                                works in all metal jikos
                                                and clay jikos that
                                                we've tested. </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span></p>
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                                                style="font-size: 12pt;
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                                                sans-serif;" class="">Our
                                                testing is early and
                                                unscientific, but
                                                consistent.  25-50% less
                                                fuel used.  Here are
                                                three reports.  The
                                                Sierra Leone report has
                                                good photos at the
                                                bottom.</span><span
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                                                      Leone</span></a></span><span
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                                                    (very few rocks)</a></span><span
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                                                  style="font-size:
                                                  12pt; font-family:
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                                                  sans-serif;" class="">(The
                                                  report authors are
                                                  untrained and not
                                                  native English
                                                  speakers.  Especially
                                                  the Kenya report
                                                  contains many errors.
                                                  Please focus on the
                                                  consistent final
                                                  conclusion that a rock
                                                  bed and second metal
                                                  grate significantly
                                                  reduce firewood
                                                  usage.)</span><span
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                                                sans-serif;" class="">This
                                                may be a very low cost,
                                                very easy way to greatly
                                                improved the efficiency
                                                of charcoal jikos.  I'd
                                                like to hear if there is
                                                already a body of work
                                                on this.  Here is my
                                                rough drawing:</span><span
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                                                          President</span></i><span
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