Pat Meadows pat at meadows.pair.com :
Fri Nov 2 09:35:47 EST 2007
You'd be emitting an awful lot of very dangerous, very bad pollutants:
dangerous to anyone in your immediate neighborhood, including you and your
family, of course, and dangerous to the world in general.
>i want to make some charcoal, but am reluctant to do it the old
>fashioned way (in a big earth covered mound) because it seems so
>wasteful. we definitely can't afford a fancy processor, so that
>leaves out that option. so what i am trying to imagine is simple
>system using an adapted wood stove for instance, so that we can also
>use the heat for ourselves. maybe as simple as a big wood stove with
>a secondary burning chamber to burn the gases so as not to creosote
>up the chimney. if the stove was really airtight enough, maybe we
>could fire it up with a big fire, and then shut it down completely
>after it is all glowing red. it wouldn't be a perfect burn, but it
>would probably provide something useful. as we shut down the air to
>the main stove, it would be nice to be able to fire up a small
>secondary burn capturing the gases emitting up the flue. i was
>thinking about adapting the smallest wood stove i could find for
>this, and then just stacking it on top of the big one and doing a
>little creative plumbing.
>
>does this sound workable?
>
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