[Stoves] Charcoal users in the world

[Otto Formo]

Dear Xavier,
The most certain  fact:Too many are using chardoal to day in developing countries and close to 85 % of the African population rely on wooden biomass as fuel, firewood or charcoal.
Statistics in that sense, which is which, firewood  or charcoal, is not very relyable, because this is very much linked to the informal sector and the "hidden" marked.
One thing you can be certain of, is that you need around 10 kg of wood to make 1 kilogram of charcoal.In a traditional kiln you will get around 100 kg of charcoal of of one tonne of wood, FAO Nairobi 1986.
Have you considered to test out ND gasifiers in your Prakti-lab?
Otto
From: xvr.brandao at gmail.com
To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:54:56 -0400
Subject: [Stoves] Charcoal users in the world

Hello stovers, I have had and am still having trouble finding statistics on the number of people using charcoal for cooking  in the world.For some reason, it is very hard to find data about that. I couldn't find anything in the GACC data or in the Practical Action Energy Outlook. There are statistics on people using "solid fuels" or "traditional biomass", but nothing specifically on charcoal. Maybe it will appear in the "Data and statistics" section of the GACC website, which has been "Coming soon" for quite some time already. Maybe there's more info in the IEA World Energy Outlook? Does anyone know where to find such info? Cheers, Xavier --Xavier BrandaoPraktiwww.PraktiDesign.com === Prakti Videos (3 min) ===Prakti Overview============================ 
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