Re: [Stoves] [biochar-production] Continuous TLUD for cooking

2014-02-03 Thread Nolbert Muhumuza
Hello Ronal, Just to add; from experience the four selling points for TLUD stoves are; 1. Time and fuel saving (cook faster, with much less biomass) 2. Use a wide variety of biomass (this has issues with chopping wood especially for rural Uganda) 3. Makes Charcoal that can be re-used in another

Re: [Stoves] [biochar-production] Continuous TLUD for cooking

2014-02-03 Thread Otto Formo
Hello Nolbert, Good points, but you seems to underestimate the potential for the gasfier stoves in an urban setting, using sundried woodchips and/or pellets as fuel. A LOT of chopped Wood in the rural areas, goes to Production of charcoal for sale in the larger cities, Cash Crop, if you

Re: [Stoves] Roketworks stove appears in the Eastern Cape

2014-02-03 Thread Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
Dear Adrian What were you lighting the charcoal stove with? Thanks Crispin Hi List, Just a few notes; our webpage is www.rocketworks.org http://www.rocketworks.org Thanks Erin for your corrections. Just some more news, we've developed a new stove the 'Zama Zama' It is in

Re: [Stoves] Roketworks stove appears in the Eastern Cape

2014-02-03 Thread Michael Wittman
Do these stoves produce any biochar? On Feb 3, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote: Dear Adrian What were you lighting the charcoal stove with? Thanks Crispin Hi List, Just a few notes; our webpage is www.rocketworks.org Thanks Erin for your corrections. Just

Re: [Stoves] Roketworks stove appears in the Eastern Cape

2014-02-03 Thread Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
Dear Michael My experience of that stove is that it produces nearly no char at all which is why the fuel efficiency is so good. It also happens to have low emissions. Char can only be made from raw fuel. In the Eastern Cape there is a serious fuel shortage and many people have to cook with

Re: [Stoves] [biochar-production] Continuous TLUD for cooking

2014-02-03 Thread Ronal W. Larson
Nolbert and ccs Thanks for adding this list of four selling points for TLUDs. A few questions: a. Are they in priority order? Might the order change for different types of customers? (say by income?) b. Any way of saying how much of each selling point is needed to move away from

Re: [Stoves] [biochar-production] Continuous TLUD for cooking

2014-02-03 Thread Anh Nguyen
Dear Ronal, Nolbert and all, I dont think there can be fixed priority order of the selling point, must based on local demand. It happen to us in the small area we covered so far in Vietnam that the reason to buy the stoves varies from area to area. An additional selling point that may not