<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=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Lists;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Five additions to yesterday's message re. Kevin’s work on HER = hot ember removal.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a. Another name possibility: BC-HERS. - with added S for stove</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> I now prefer, even though we add a syllable, and I liked “CHER"</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>BC will remind of biochar much better than B</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>HERS should better sell such stoves to main target audience for any improved stove</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Women (different meaning of “hers") can better claim the added soil benefits and income from char making</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>b. Six reasons why making char in a "3-stone” could be accepted more than TLUDs have been</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. Low first cost. (even zero cost in simplest form)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. Not batch</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. Less time in fuel prep; can use larger fuel sizes</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. Larger and smaller power levels are possible. </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5. One less stove to ’stack’</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>6. Can possibly design for multiple cook pots</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>c. Advantages of TLUDs that are lost;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. Better emissions - health<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. Less time spent in tending fire</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. More char per unit cooking time. </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. Higher Tier levels</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>d. Unknowns</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. Price and benefits.of replacing 3-stones with iron grate with added wind barriers and skirt - that might be justified by.working on all 4 TLUD advantages of topic c</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. Optimum designs for d1 - such as hot ember dropping into water?</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. Changes in fuel consumption per cooking task (stove efficiency)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. Quality of produced char - Kevin’s two questions yesterday</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>e. Will respond to Crispin’s comments yesterday on claimed char-making measurement errors.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thoughts on any of above? Anyone able to give this a try? Or cooperate with Kevin off-lists in design, construction and testing including in-field with urine (this is more than a stove project)?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ron</div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 1, 2021, at 10:21 PM, Ronal Larson <<a href="mailto:rongretlarson@comcast.net" class="">rongretlarson@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Two lists and cc Kevin and Hugh Mclaughlin<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See inserts below.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><snip></div><br class=""></div></body></html>