Bob Crosby is putting years of experience in mechanical engineering and appropriate technologies to good use. He’s going to build a wood-burning stove that helps fight global warming …
Crosby said his stove will produce heat while providing fuel for cars, fertilizer for gardens and electricity for its own bellows.
A key fact scientific fact makes this possible.
Wood itself doesn’t burn. When exposed to extreme heat, wood gives off biogas, which subsequently burns. While these two occurrences typically happen in conjunction, this doesn’t need to be the case.
“You can design a stove that will extract the gas for use and use it instead of natural gas. And you’re left with charcoal which you can plant in your soil and enhance the productivity of the soil,” Crosby said.
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