Dear Andrew, there is no need for anything to get ugly if urban households switched to biomass. If one used stoves having electrically driven fans, biomass can be burned as cleanly as kerosene or LPG. If more electricity is going to be available in Ecuador, it can be used for briquetting agricultural waste. This has now grown into a thriving industry in India. The briquette makers buy agricultural waste from farmers and sell the briquettes to industries as boiler fuel. If an industry uses biomass briquettes instead of fuel oil as boiler fuel, it saves almost 60% of the fuel cost. A company of which I am the Chairman of the board, sells large stoves of this type to restaurants, which have switched over from LPG to using biomass briquettes. The cities themselves produce a large amount of combustible waste like cardboard, waste paper and leaf litter. Richard Stanley's method of briquetting can be used for turning urban waste into fuel briquettes for use in urban household stoves. Yours A.D.Karve
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Andrew C. Parker <[email protected]>wrote: > There is probably enough ag waste to fuel rural kitchens, but if urban > households switch to biomass, it will get really ugly, which would be a > shame for such a beautiful country. > ______________________________**_________________ > Stoves mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.**org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_** > lists.bioenergylists.org<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/ <http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/> > > -- *** Dr. A.D. Karve Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
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