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As a kid I used to do some crazy experiments. Some with fire, some with dry ice. After watching a documentary that included the use of Wood Gas, Syngas, to run a combustion engine I got the idea to make a better stove. Being only 12, with few resources in the 1970's I used aluminum can's. My goal was to build what's now known now as a rocket stove to bring one gallon of water to a boil with the least amount of biomass. My guide was a similar paper to the attached available in books at the library. I spent a lot of time at libraries. High school math tells us to take one gallon of water from 60 ° F to boiling of 212 ° F is about 77,000 BTU's. Using the attached 1979 study, which was about the time I was tinkering, we get about 9,800 BTU's / lbs of selective biomass available in most American forests. That would equal about 9 lbs of biomass; rounded up for efficiency loss. The modification in design of the Solo Stove would require a pyrolysis chamber inside the burn drum to release the methane. With biomass having the highest methane content, as much as 300% to 400%, with the right modification to the Solo Stove, the biomass requirements could be cut down to at least half the biomass requirements.
I love the design. I want to buy it. But for the price $270, the Solo Stove should include the pyrolysis chamber. As it stands it's just a get rich quick wannabe rocket stove. Sorry.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1068&context=govdocs_forest
Nov 15, 2017
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