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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Beyond combustion, beyond pollution
  • Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:14:36 -0500


would it work to build a woodsmoke scrubber for home heating use

something like a device that introduces air into the smokestream before
exiting the chimney,
contains all gases and particulate matter and pumps it into a vat of water,
like a hookah
then into successive identical vats untill all components of smoke are
dissolved in water.
The vats are purged periodically with all liquids introduced into a
remediation system;
various filtration materials and components could be involved at various
stages of the purification process.

anyone with chemistry and environmental science background have any thoughts
on this?

from a previous post it seems that the worst pollutants in wood smoke are
various carcinogens and NOx
(is this nitric oxide?)

LL





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