[Stoves] babana peel 2

ajheggie at gmail.com ajheggie at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 08:29:00 CST 2011


On Sunday 04 December 2011 14:14:49 Paal wendelbo wrote:

> There are a lot of different bananas. Peals of green Banana tested in
> Uganda and Ghana some year ago were doing well dry as fuel and also as
> a binder for briquettes with other type of biomass, though on
> competition with food for the gouts. Dry peals from sweet bananas would
> not burn.

Hi Paal, my guess is the bananas I eat are sweet bananas, typically 
imported by Fifes from where I don't know. So your experience with dry 
peel from these seems similar to mine.

We also have plantain which are much larger and more savoury and less 
commonly bought as too large for a snack.

AJH




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