[Stoves] coal briquette stove

[Kobus]

Richard, John,

I have seen these coal briquettes (not charcoal) floating around in South Africa, I even managed
to acquire a box of them at one stage (stored somewhere now or thrown away...will check), and I
would say each briquette weighed about 400 grams each.  I picked up the coal stove that came
with it (small stove with high density clay inserts, that did nothing to aid combustion) and coal
briquettes at a give-away price from a local pawn shop.

Look at the picture again Richard and click on enlarge to get a good look at the stove and
briquettes: http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/30800390/Imbawula_Stove.html

John, why not drop this guy a note and get some more information?  :-)

Regards

Kobus



Hello again, John,

Never heard of this: What is it made of and how much does it weigh?

When you Kobus and I worked on it at my place in Paulshof, I recall that we regularly arrived at
2 kilowatts (+/-0.5 kw) from one briquette af about 140 grams but the burn time was only about
45 minutes to 1 hr...( it being designed more for cook stove applications). ould also like to see
hat the mbaula looks like...Thanks in advance
Kobus, et tu ?

Richard Stanley
NW Obamaland

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On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:56 AM, John Davies wrote:

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>  A friend sent me this:
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>  A claim is made that a holey briquette costing R2   ( US$  0.28 ), burns for
>  10 hours.  Well I do not suppose much more than 500 watts would be given
>  off.
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>  Haven't seen it before, any ideas ?
>
>  John Davies.
>
>  There's a guy selling mbawula's, and it looks quite well made.  No smoke?
>  Are you aware of it?
>  http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/30800390/Imbawula_Stove.html
>
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