Thanks Andrew What you are pointing out, and this valuable advice, is that a stove should be designed for a fuel with a known moisture content. That wood I mentioned won't burn on its own in an open fire (so I am told) and in ideal circumstances could be.
BTW that is a remarkably high MC for spruce. Wow. We never see that. Is it from a swamp?? Regards Crispin ++++++++ This is about the mc of fresh spruce or poplar in UK, it will burn poorly in a typical wood stove but an industrial wood burner with some heat feedback can burn it cleanly. I think there's enough energy in the dry fuel that suggest it should be possible to burn material up to 80+%mc, though of course ill advised and wasteful. Air drying is probably the best use of solar energy we can make. AJH _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
