[Stoves] An Introduction

[Anand Karve]

If a fair price is offered to the farmer for his agricultural waste, he
would transport it at his own cost to the processing plant. In my own
state, there are 100 factories which buy agricultural waste from farmers
and press it into briquettes, which are sold as industrial fuel for boiler
furnaces.
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:56 PM, <ajheggie at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 04 December 2011 04:21:38 Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
> > Fortunately the poorest people are stuck in the middle of nowhere and
> > are hard to get to so They will have first dibs on the resource. Good.
>
> To my mind it is the fact that is a low value, distributed resource with
> high transport costs that makes agri residues an ideal fuel for stoves,
> and particularly char making stoves IF there is an agronomic benefit in
> biochar to the producer.
>
> Fossil fuels are dealt by oligarchies from rich pockets underground and
> consumed by centralised processes yet the CO2 produced becomes fairly
> evenly distributed so can be sequestrated locally. My doubt remains that
> there is, or can be, a means of rewarding the small scale sequestration
> other than an increase in production from the treated soil.
>
> Richard and others' work with medium density briquettes and the acceptance
> of them in simple bucket type stoves is leading the way with agri
> residues. From my feeble attempts in UK I find I cannot air dry things
> like corn cobs sufficiently for them to burn in small scale TLUD devices
> and previous experience with making briquettes I both failed to get the
> density or moisture content right. The former, I suspect from
> instructions Richard has given here, from inadequate retting and
> preparation.
>
> Moving on slightly; does anyone know what the chemistry of banana skins is
> that they fail to suprort flaming combustion even when dry?
>
> AJH
>
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Dr. A.D. Karve
Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
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