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  • From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Healing Hawk doesn't do enough observation
  • Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:08:41 -0400

Tommy,
You may need to tweak your conclusions a bit more. Granted much wood is poorly combusted, but it doesn't have to be. Consider this comment from a review of Ianto Evan's book: Rocket Mass Heaters-Superefficient Woodstoves You Can Build (and snuggle up to)


"The key feature of Ianto's rocket is a super-insulated internal chimney, which he calls the "heat riser", which allows the wood to completely vaporize and burn at temperatures up to 1100F, so that only *steam and carbon dioxide* exit through the flue...*no ash, no creosote, no chimney flue fires*! Actually, it's instructive and somewhat amazing to smell(!) the exit gasses from a blazing rocket stove flue: no smoke, just steam more like a laundry-dryer vent with a nice woody scent!

So a well designed rocket stove combusts as close to 100% efficiency as anything I've seen. Why is this important, if wood fuel is plentiful? For one, no smoke to pollute our air. But note also that more efficient burning means more heat from less wood, hence less physical labor or money spent acquiring fuel, more time for other activities (gardening, reading, dancing, weaving, etc!)"

This is the point I tried to make about mass heaters in an earlier email.
Keith

Healing Hawk wrote:
Again, I apologize. I was wrong about wood burning contributing to global
warming. It contributes to air pollution, not to global warming.
Air quality issues are why Holmgren talks about training firewood users,
designing better stoves, and using sustainably produced charcoal instead of
wood. Tommy Tolson
Austin, TX
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