[Stoves] Applications of TLUD heat - not for cooking and biochar and terra pretta

[mtrevor]

Dear All

I have been lurking in the background but following all with the greatest of 
intereset.
Here in the Marshall Islands one of my longest desires is a better copra 
drier fueled by biomass
and producing biochar as a by-product. This would also put all action at a 
local producer level
as copra making is at the house hold level spread over hundred of islets on 
30 some atolls spread
100's of thousands of square miles.  If the retort is fueled by coconut 
shell the obvious resale of shell charcoal
is a given. However  the use of other material particularly fronds and husk 
would be a real plus.
Considering a small burner of to the side for cooking would possible. Since 
much copra drying is
a nigthtime activity does anyone know if producer gas has even been tried in 
a gas mantle lamp?.
Atoll soil is poor nutrient wise and biochar might have good effect from 
what small efforts I have done
in the past.

The truly intriguing thing is all the little glimmers that keep showing up 
that indicate whole new sustainable
"Jeffersonian" models that could be built. What is scary at the same time is 
the philosophy of "newer bigger better." which
seems to be diametrically opposed to terra pretta biochar and biomass fuel 
type system. There are a lot of corporations world
wide with vested interests which may not be supportive at all.

We won't be here by Hawking's warning migh have merit
"Stephen Hawking, one of the world's greatest physicists and cosmologists, 
is once again warning his fellow humans that our extinction is on the 
horizon unless we figure out a way to live in space. Not known for 
conspiracy theories, Hawking's rationale is that the Earth is far too 
delicate a planet to continue to withstand the barrage of human battering. 
'We must continue to go into space for humanity,' Hawking said today, 
according to the Los Angeles Times. 'We won't survive another 1,000 years 
without escaping our fragile planet.'"

SO GAS IS GOOD







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Anderson" <psanders at ilstu.edu>
To: "Discussion of biomass cooking stoves" <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 2:03 PM
Subject: [Stoves] Applications of TLUD heat - not for cooking


> Dear Paul O.
>
> Your example of use of TLUD heat is of great interest.   Could you please 
> expand on it as a small Word document or PowerPoint, with some photos?   A 
> functioning example is worth 10 in the discussion process.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul A.
>
> Paul S. Anderson, PhD  aka "Dr TLUD"
> Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu   Skype: paultlud  Phone: +1-309-452-7072
> Website:  www.drtlud.com
>
>
>> Note that it is not necessary to pelletize rice hulls or coffee husks. 
>> They gasify quite well in their undensified state. But pelletizing makes 
>> transport so much easier, and pelletizing becomes essential when long, 
>> uninterrupted batch cycles are needed. In one commercial setting in 
>> Saigon, ten of my small gasifiers were set up in a single paint drying 
>> facility. The reactors are loaded with rice hull pellets, and the batch 
>> cycle in this case lasts for more than five hours. The factory is now in 
>> a position to sell rice hull biochar to local farmers at a higher price 
>> than the pellets from which the biochar was derived. No more bottled gas 
>> is used in this facility. The owner of this factory just bought a small 
>> pellet machine and will start making his own rice hull pellets. He will 
>> soon become an important producer of rice hull biochar, and the gas he 
>> needs to fuel his paint-drying facility is for free.
>>
>
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