Tumblelog Fireplace Fuel - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 45966 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 131.01 CHENOPODIACEAE Salsola kali | Entry Book Number | 17.1986.1 | |
| Artefact Name | Tumblelog Fireplace Fuel | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United States | TDWG Region | United States | ||
| Parts Held | Tumblelog Fireplace Fuel | Geography Description | USA | ||
| Uses | Tumblelog Fireplace FuelUse: FUELS User: Man | TDWG use | FUELS | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Office of Arid Lands Studies, Univ of Arizona | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 04/11/1986 | Donor Notes | Arizonax0Dx0A | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Heating value 52,000 BTU Tumblelogs are an experimental fuel source manufactured under grants from the Arizona Solar Energy Research Commission and the US Dept of Energy. This tumblelog was made from 100% Arizonia tumbleweed or Russian this, tle. It will burn longer by volume than ordinary firewood. Tumblelogs are manufactured by passing tumbleweed through a hammermill where it is ground to the consistency of coarse flour. The ground material is compacted under 18000 pounds per square inch pr, essure - enough pressure to generate the heat required for the natural plant resins to bind the particles together into this log. Tumbleweed which grows readily on disturbed lands was accidentally introduced into North America in the latter part of the 19, th century. It has few natural enemies, and its capacity for rapid dispersal coupled with its ability to grow with limited rainfall in many parts of the arid portions of the US make tumbleweed a potential renewable, local fuel source. | ||||