[Stoves] Fwd: The Charcoal Project

[Richard Stanley]

Very true  Trevor: 

The video quality is good and filmography excellent, but the story is rather depressing in lieu of not alternatives no highlites of options. Give a local fuel briquetter  the 15 to 20% dust and scraps from just the selling station in the local markets and they can reduce raw demand for that charcoal by about 40% while reaching the same market populaiton. That and the potential for true bio char/biomass charcoal making:  No one mention of these alternatives although ther is one short shot of a locally made  oil drum kiln full of leaves & stems etc.......Seems a sad omission indeed but you know what: It does not really matter: The market for the existing alternatives can only rise  as demand for charcoal rises and charcoal supply diminishes...

Pressing on,
R Stanley
www.legacyfound.org
NW Obamaland
 
On Aug 25, 2011, at 2:24 AM, Trevor Richards wrote:

> It seems from this video that fossil fuel is the great hope for saving the forests! Something wrong with this picture...
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> Date: 25 August 2011 16:45
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> The Charcoal Project 
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> Study: Charcoal and patterns of forest degradation in Tanzania
> Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:23 PM PDT
> A study presented at the June symposium on charcoal organized in Arusha, Tanzania, finds that,
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> 1. At current rates, no high value timber will be left in Tanzania's coastal forest in 37 years.
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> 2. The Tanzanian government lost $53 million USD in 2005. This is due to the fact that 96% of the timber harvest was undeclared.
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> 3. China imports 10 times more timber from Tanzania that total declared imports.
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> Continue reading →
> VIDEO: The charcoal problem in Tanzania compellingly explained
> Posted: 24 Aug 2011 06:20 AM PDT
> Dar es Salaam consumes the equivalent of 16 olympic pools in charcoal every day. This figure is increasing daily as rural populations migrate to urban centers. At $350 million per year, charcoal is big business, too.
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> This great video produced by the World Bank last year (2010) lays out the issue in a way that is well-documented and visually compelling.
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