shoeboxlen said:does the carcass of the still wheeping tree hugger count????? just kidding they run too fast
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shoeboxlen said:does the carcass of the still wheeping tree hugger count????? just kidding they run too fast
trehugr said:shoeboxlen said:does the carcass of the still wheeping tree hugger count????? just kidding they run too fast
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603doug said:We clean out boxes of expired records and checks from our businesses and I did not want my business crap blowing out along the road to the dump (landfill for the younger generation), so I start throwing a box into the boiler and out jumps a family of mice. I am not a big fan of mice in the home but do not want to fry live ones, has to be bad karma, so I start shoveling dirt, sand anything that will put the fire out. Saved the stinking mice but took 3 hrs to clean all the non burnable debris out of the firebox, clean outs etc. I was so mad bought a box of decon.
Mushroom Man said:I have not burned anything but wood but this seems like the right place to place this question.
What would you expect from burning spent mushroom substrate? Before the quips start, there is no manure in our process. Just straw, a bit of wheat bran and mushroom mycelia.
We have to dispose of it anyway; so burning it and capturing BTUs seems logical if it won't harm the gasifier. I am a bit concerned about corrosion (as anyone with a boiler should be).
Are there chemicals present in straw that would make it more corrosive than wood? I remember hearing something about un-senesced switchgrass as a biofuel and the excess chlorine produced in the presence of heat that might do harm to the boiler because of chlorine's corrosive effect on metals. Would the straw in the substrate be the equivalent of aged and dried switchgrass or un-senesced switchgrass.
I guess only a straw burner would know for sure, but opinions are welcomed.
DaveBP said: