Dear Kevin
You analysis is correct. When rating the performance of a stove from a fuel use perspective, the chart is correct: Two stoves are being compared for "Efficiency". Given facts from Tests: STOVE A STOVE B STOVE C STOVE D Nature of Fuel Ag. Waste Ag.Waste Stickwood Stickwood Fuel Energy Supplied, MJ 10 15 10 15 Energy to Cooking Pot, MJ 5 5 5 5 Energy in Char, MJ 0 5 0 5 Stove Efficiency, % 50.00% 33.33% 50.00% 33.33% If someone is interested in the char, it can be reported. What Ron is proposing, to add that heat energy available in the char back into the mix, is akin to considering the energy efficiency to be the fuel efficiency which is precisely what created for us a problem in the first place. The energy value of the char came from somewhere. Consider a stove that takes 2 tons of forest per year. If it produces ¼ of a ton of forests worth of energy in the form of char, fine. Say so. But saying so does not reduce the two tons of forest it takes. If you have (as you pointed out) a second stove that can utilise the charcoal, then that can be viewed as a system by all and sundry, but is still does not change the fact that Stove 1 takes two tons of forest each year which is what the reported fuel consumption should be. No smoke and mirrors. Burying the char as a soil amendment instead of burning it merely takes us back to the two tons of forest per year draw-down and returns it to the environment in an (apparently) inert, solid form. What has been happening that is wrong, in my view, is that stoves that take off 3 tons of forest per year have been getting credit for taking only one ton and proclaimed to be better and more fuel efficient than a two-ton stove. Plainly this is not the case and the test method has to report the fuel consumption correctly. It is a problem that the UNFCCC methodology does not handle this well because it is being used for CDM trades. Regards Crispin
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