Paul,
I am unsure that sufficient alternatives to fossil fuels and human
hubris are forth coming.
I drive a car.
Alex
On 12/06/2013 7:28 PM, Paul Olivier wrote:
Alex,
You say: /Visions of pyrolysis stoves in the kitchens of North America
are borderline male fantasy. /Be realistic. Do you have any other
other alternative to the use of fossil fuels? Such a double standard:
we use fossil fuels to cook our meals and we expect poor people to use
biomass fuels.
Yes, you can start with the patio and then later move indoors as you
acquire more skill in operating the unit. Also, at this early stage in
the evolution of the technology, I would not recommend doing away with
your gas stove. Leave it there, but try to use your biomass stove as
much as possible.
Pellets are available at so many retail outlets in the USA, and they
are so easy to handle. I think that there are many households along
the West coast who would be happy to break away from the stranglehold
of Big Oil.
In my kitchen I have not yet set up a hood and fan. So I will operate
the pellet gasifier in my living room on a small coffee table. All
that I have to do is to open up the two big windows in the living
room. The problem that I have had all along was dealing with loose
rice hulls. I have no place to store a large sack of rice hulls in my
house, and I dislike having to load them into the reactor: they are so
dusty and dirty. With pellets this problem is solved.
Thanks.
Paul
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