I drive a motorbike which hopefully one day will be fueled with methanol derived from syngas derived in turn from invasive plants. On Jun 13, 2013 9:41 AM, "Alex English" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > >
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