From: Fireside Hearth [[email protected]]
Sent: 2012-02-08 08:37:30 MET
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Grates and chimneys
Dear Xavier,
I should be offended, but alas, I will send you a video link
instead........yes our stove has a chimney!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vkz6gKLayvc
Roger and Bridget Lehet.
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 23:59:35 +0100
> Subject: [Stoves] Grates and chimneys
>
> " It is unfortunate that people produce stoves that have chimneys, but are
> not actually clean-burning."
> Do we actually have chimney stoves that do not clog up after few
> months/years? Even the cleanest stoves? Is it a good idea to build chimney
> stoves at all?
>
> "Your grate price is good! I think we should be jealous! It would be so
> nice to be able to get good parts in cast iron."
> Hell yes, I can make 1 dollar iron grates, but I wish we could
make 1 dollar
> cast iron grates in Benin. In fact, cast iron is very rare in Benin (West
> Africa? Africa?). When Africa will have the industrial production
capacities
> of Asia, things will change!
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:14:57 -0500
> From: "Crispin Pemberton-Pigott" <[email protected]>
> To: "'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves'"
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Stoves] advice for chimney wood stove for rural Burkina
> Faso
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>
> Dear AD
>
>
>
> Your story is not very unusual. It is unfortunate that people
produce stoves
> that have chimneys, but are not actually clean-burning. My point is that
> just because one produces a chimney stove is no excuse not to use that
> additional expense to create the draft needed to completely burn the fuel.
> Astonishing really.
>
>
>
> I wonder if there is too much emphasis on 'clean indoor air'
without enough
> emphasis on 'not needing to worry about clean indoor air' in the first
> place.
>
>
>
> That level of deposition is depressing. I heard about a stove
being produced
> in the tea country high in Kenya which is used for space heating and
> cooking, According to the designer the 3 inch chimney would clog
after three
> months. That is ridiculous! What kind of crummy combustion is that?
>
>
>
> A chimney is as good as a fan - especially 3.5 metres. Fan stoves are
> supposed to be really clean or you have not done a good job. Shoving bad
> combustion outside does not solve much. The situation in Ulaanbaatar is
> exactly like that. No one has a stove without a chimney. The air
outside is
> so polluted that it is contaminating the air drawn into the homes. So the
> chimney solved nothing - the problem is the stove.
>
>
>
> Your grate price is good! I think we should be jealous! It would
be so nice
> to be able to get good parts in cast iron.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Crispin
>
>
>
>
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