Rajan Thats true …if you can manage to chop .grind and pulp them or otherwise force them to compress them with so much pressure that the lignin melts and acts as a binder. Otherwise using rotting leaves is a lot easier. See our website. Just watch the video on our website.
For yourself and AD, the other thing to note is that usually one does not have to go into the field to gather leaves. One rather tends to gather them in windblown pockets/depressions along, say the roadside or still-wind along structures where the leaves are not doing the soil much good anyway. Why : It's simply a lot easier to gather clumps of leaves in such pockets , than to go about combing the fields picking up a few leaves here and there. Kind regards, Richard Stanley www.legacyfound.org On Oct 29, 2012, at 8:33 PM, [email protected] wrote: Dear All, It may be just enough to collect the twigs for fuel and leave the leaves where they are for rotting. Twigs are are more useful as fuel since they are heavier and also easier to collect and use. Also, improved cookstoves use less fuel for the same cooking task. Regards, Rajan > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:54:27 -0700 (PDT) > From: Robert Fairchild <[email protected]> > To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Stoves] Free FUEL is rotting around you ! > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear Stovers, > ?If we remove too much biomass we will disrupt the functioning of the > ecosystem. The biomass contains nutrients, protects the soil from erosion, > and produces soil as it decomposes. At the very least the mineral nutrients > (ash) need to be returned to the land. Biochar could replace some of the > "stolen" water holding ability. > ?Bob > _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
