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Lawrence, your comments are correct in our experience
Slow combusting is a "normal" practice here in Australia as you 
mentioned although we stopped it because of the pollution, the build 
up of creosote in the flue pipe(a very common source of fires and 
houses burning down here) and lastly to reduce the amount of wood we 
were using(albeit not that much extra)
We have an abundance of kindling wood on the property and prefer to 
relight in the mornings.Anybody can collect kindling, even the 
smallest of children but not so for larger wood. Since giving up the 
practice of slow combusting we don't have to clean the flue pipe (no 
fire danger) we have not had any creosote contamination of our rain 
water(which I forgot to mention.) Quite a saving in labour as opposed 
to the small increase in lighting the fire each morning.
If we don't collectively clean up our act with the burning of 
wood,the authorities may outlaw wood stoves which would be tragic, 
given that is the most environmentally sound way of cooking, heating 
water and heating homes.
Su Dennett

> -  
> On  Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:17:49 +0200 mitshell 
> <mitshell@netvision.net.il wrote:-
>
> Is anybody aware of wood burning stoves/heaters that can be loaded with wood
> once every 24 hours or something there about as opposed to the regular
> fireplaces that need
> to have wood added every few hours ?
>
> Thanx for any info
> Mitch Schertz
>
> SOME COMMENTS ON STOVES:
> 1.    Shane from Charlottesville, VA may well be correct in 
> suggesting that Masonry Stoves are what is being referred to here.
> These European stoves come in a number of different shapes sizes and 
> names. Sometimes referred to as Russian or Finnish Stoves. Sometimes 
> called Kachelofens. Bill Mollison has advocated these stoves over 
> the years and they do make alot of sense if in the right climate.
> Suggest they are not so useful in climates that require only 
> intermittent supplementary heat. Good in climates where constant 
> day/night heat required.
> 2.    Regarding overnight burning in more conventional stoves
> I think we should not be encouraging this practice as this type of 
> smouldering is not a clean hot burn. In  terms of air pollution it 
> would be much more preferable to burn out the load with a hot burn 
> before shutting stove down at night and relighting in the morning.
> Mind you I do not always do this myself.
> The air pollution from wood stoves could be dramatically reduced if 
> only operated in hot burn mode.
> The efficiency test standards usually only apply to this mode of 
> operation which interestingly from my observations in Australia is 
> not the normal mode of operation.
>
> Laurence Gaffney
> Australia
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