[Estufas] the new Ecko-Plancha

[Richard Stanley]

Hola Gustavo a et al, 

Just a heads up on our briquette training:

We have just completed our training of producers in Guatemala about a month ago, up in Tecpan, with Fundacion Progressar.  Reports coming in from the five different teams --from five different localities)--as they now face the realities in their local communities with that new thing called eco leña, unaided by anyone--, are good but highly varied at this stage. There are lots of ongoing exchanges between us for technical corrections/ insights, adaptations and local insights about resrouces and applications new to us as well.  Some of these will fail, others will take off: Its a bit too soon to tell. (we typically bat 60 to 70% success) 

This suggests that soon, there will be a source of briquette fuel in various communities throughout Guatemala.

I'm heading back down near the end of May for a two week site visits and tech discussions with various talliers on some new  material processing and press technologies and or adaptations of existing ones) as tailored to local needs, resources  and skill sets. I am not expecting to find successful--meaning stand alone, micro-entrepreneur based production capacity--- yet. 

Thats a a few months off. 

We will be returning again in October / November for training of trainers from amongst this initial producer teams, then we can safely open the floodgates to  anyone's request for training of  their own groups. The briquette product can easily be tailored in both blend and diameter (from 2" through 6" )  and height (from thin wafers of 1" height to 8" + log lengths using many of the same presses which are now in early stages of local production in Guatemala. 

Let us know if  this fuel source will be if interest to you so we can start discussions about  its testing and adaptation to your own stove designs.   Gustavo perhpas this time we can meet ! 

Richard Stanley,
www.legacyfound.org

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