<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=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Kirk and stoves list. 2 ccs</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Constructive (?) comments:</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. I suggest that your ideas have merit and should be pursued. I see nothing wrong with your diagram. </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> 15 or more years ago, on the stoves list, Alex English modified an existing commercial unit somewhat like your design - mainly by speeding up the moving biomass. I believe considered successful</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. But I believe yours is too large a jump up for any single person to accomplish without big money behind them.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Three solutions:</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a. Make a sales pitch to work with companies already doing something similar - I think there may be more that 20 in the US alone, with a thermal output focus. The competition against PV, wind and batteries is likely too tough in this size range.. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>b. Pick a smaller size final need and apparatus, where there is little going on. In this case continuous (non-batch) charcoal-making heating stoves.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>c. Maybe focus on a do-it-yourself audience - willing to use horizontal 200 liter drums.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. I’d focus on wood chips - as being much cheaper and more readily available than pellets. Large pieces of wood don’t look at all amenable to what you are proposing. I don’t see much happening with chips for combined char-making and heating.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. Conceivable that such a stove user could make money while heating.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Constructive?</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> Ron</span></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 24, 2021, at 8:08 PM, Kirk Harris <<a href="mailto:gkharris316@comcast.net" class="">gkharris316@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">All,<br class=""><br class="">For several years I have been working on an efficient burner for wood gas from a TLUD wood stove. The burner is well along, and is very efficient. Now my attention has turned to producing wood gas and char on a larger scale for a carbon negative (relating to the atmosphere) electrical power plant. Attached are documents which describe where the idea is going. The pyrolyzer is a brainstorming idea. The bluff body burner is quite well developed.<br class=""><br class="">Constructive comments are welcome,<br class=""><br class="">Kirk H.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.<br class=""><a href="https://www.avg.com" class="">https://www.avg.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-<br class="">Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group.<br class="">View/Reply Online (#30932): https://Biochar.groups.io/g/main/message/30932<br class="">Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/86568483/3503653<br class="">Group Owner: main+owner@Biochar.groups.io<br class="">Unsubscribe: https://Biochar.groups.io/g/main/leave/10194466/3503653/695668260/xyzzy [rongretlarson@comcast.net]<br class="">-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span id="cid:6318DFF6-7C2E-4AC8-BEAF-D21F4F338CA3"><Vibrating table pyroyzer.docx></span><span id="cid:449932C4-EAD6-44D4-92D6-32273E3D107A"><Duel chamber bluff body burner 2.2.docx></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>