Dear Yuri Great to hear from you! You have been too quiet.
I visited a 2 story log house (a new one) in Gachuurt outside Ulaanbaatar and they proudly told me the logs all came from Russia! Big surprise. Apparently there is a type of tree that does not split much when it dries. Very straight too. It is the preferred as the building method by one ethnic group so perhaps they learned about it in Russia. There is a lot of wood used as fuel in Ulaanbaatar but zero charcoal. Even street vendors selling cooked meat use wood. Compared with coal it is expensive unless you live out of town. The city burns perhaps 400,000 tons of wood per year. It is only responsible for one or two percent of the air pollution because the stoves are wood stoves, not coal stoves. The idea is to introduce proper coal stoves as well. Regards Crispin in Beijing _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_listserv.repp.org http://stoves.bioenergylists.org http://info.bioenergylists.org UNSUBSCRIBE HERE; http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_listserv.repp.org
