Wayne. Cc stoves I am taking an unusual action here - of taking your remarks from one list to another -because it seems so important on this sister stove list - in terms of user reaction
I am not surprised by the grandmother's love for your stove, but I do hope that you can send some details on your specific design - probably best to both lists. For the sake of both lists, I also want to understand why you are not or not able to make char in it. Ron On Jun 1, 2013, at 11:58 PM, "Teel, Wayne Stephen - teelws" <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark, > > I don't think it western smugness at all. In fact, I think you are making > another classic western mistake, the assumption that these people are too > different to understand. Actually people are not all that different. I am > writing this from western Kenya, among the Abiluhya/Idakho people's near the > town of Kakamega. I brought over a TLUD stove that my students and I made in > a research project this past year. We have done a few trials already and the > response is not all that different from professors at JMU; where is all the > smoke? How does it work so well? Can I buy one? Can we make them ourselves? > One older woman, a grandmother numerous times over, loved the stove because > she can use it inside the kitchen instead of the in the kitchen hut outside > because there is no smoke. Is that so different than us? So why could a > midden not be a garden? When you discover stuff growing well on the > throwaways of your midden, why not turn it into a garden? I would. > > By the way, no biochar from the TLUD. We are using throwaway pieces of wood, > too small for a three stone fire. They tend to be completely consumed in the > process. The key interest is in smokeless cooking. Thanks to Paul Anderson > and Hugh McLaughlin for the design ideas. > > Wayne > > Wayne S. Teel > 701 Carrier Drive > ISAT MSC 4102 > Harrisonburg, VA 22807 > Phone: 540-568-2798 > Fax: 540-568-2761 > E-mail: [email protected] > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Mark > Ludlow [[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 10:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [biochar] State of the scientific knowledge on properties and > genesis of Anthropogenic Dark Earths > > Jeezuz, Erich! It’s not sarcasm at all! You think these midden pits were > kitchen gardens? It’s so easy to transpose (overlay) our culture on prehi _______________________________________________ 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://stoves.bioenergylists.org/
