[Stoves] Stoves Digest, Vol 16, Issue 52 - biochar and composting process

[rajan_jiby at dataone.in]

Dear Crispin,

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> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:39:02 -0500
> From: "Crispin Pemberton-Pigott" <crispinpigott at gmail.com>
> To: "'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves'"
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> Subject: Re: [Stoves] [biochar] allAfrica.com: Africa: Biochar -
> Unfulfilled Promises in Cameroon
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> Dear Ron
>
> I am not convinced that poor people cooking with experimental stoves is 
> the right way to do preliminary investigations. I think we should leave 
> this to the agronomists for a few years and they can get back to us with 
> what works.


I operate a small compost bin at the back of my house where vegetable waste 
from my house gets converted into organic manure.

When I add a little bit of charcoal from my TLUD gasifier stove into the 
compost bin occasionally, the composting seems to happen a little faster.

Hope this information is of some use to somebody.


>The fact that amateurs want to get in on it is interesting but it is 
>clearly too early for triumphalism. At the present pace and direction, it 
>is inevitably going discredit both stoves and biochar.
>
> Regards
>
> Crispin
>

Regards,

Rajan