<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Liat,  Kevin, Crispin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>See inserts.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 3, 2019, at 6:12 AM, K McLean <<a href="mailto:info@sun24.solar" class="">info@sun24.solar</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Regardless 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 readily adopt.  Kevin</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><b class="">[RWL1:  I agree with all.  I hope the emphasis in this thread can only be on usage (see thread name - “Improving 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><div><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>(more below - also from today)<br class=""></b><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><i class=""><span title="Call with Google Voice" class=""><span title="Call with Google Voice" class=""><span title="Call with Google Voice" class=""><br class=""></span></span></span></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 7:42 AM Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com" class="">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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<div class="gmail-m_6343832323420919572WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Dear Friends<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><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.
<u class=""></u></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span><b 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=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-CA" class=""><div class="gmail-m_6343832323420919572WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><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></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span><b 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=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-CA" class=""><div class="gmail-m_6343832323420919572WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""> It is 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.<u class=""></u></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b 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><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-CA" class=""><div class="gmail-m_6343832323420919572WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">While it is popular to say that charcoal makes “a lot of smoke” when it is made, it is only true when people do that, and not when they don’t. 
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<b class="">To:</b> Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <<a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank" class="">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>>; Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com" target="_blank" class="">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>>; Kevin McLean > <<a href="mailto:info@sun24.solar" class="">info@sun24.solar</a>><br class="">
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