[Terrapreta] FW: Simple charcoal kiln

[andrew]

On Sunday 27 April 2008 00:32, Sean K. Barry wrote:
> Folke Gunthur does see and view many things about this issue very
> astutely and correctly, in my opinion.  However, "simple"
> "charcoal-in-a-barrel" kilns (or retorts), whatever whoever wants
> to call them, are not a great idea. 

It looked like he'd struck the ball spot on to me, he was using dry 
wood, they looked like offcuts which may have just been left to rot 
or put on a bonfire. There was little evidence of smoke and we know 
that offgas from dry wood can be flared cleanly. The final product 
was what was desired despite no temperature control and the only 
obvious scope for improvenet in a simple system is to utilise the 
waste heat in some way, such as was discussed in the farm scale 
carboniser thread.
>
>Tom Wrote:  Note that the original posting was from Folke Gunther. 
>Erin just
> rescued it from a filter that thought it was SPAM.  
>

I guess shooting the messenger is about par for the level of 
comprehension, mind why the spam filter trapped a concise an 
informative post but let's through the all the repetitive verbiage I 
see needs addressing ;-)

AJH