[Stoves] wheat husk pellets

[Paul Olivier]

*In the regions of the world where wheat is the predominant food-crop,
wheat husk can also be compacted to produce energy-pellets, with
characteristics similar to rice-husk pellets.*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellet_fuel

*Wheat is grown on more than 240,000,000 hectares (590,000,000 acres),
larger than for any other crop... The average world farm yield for wheat
was 3.1 tonnes per hectare, in 2010.*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat

Images of wheat husk pellets:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wheat+husks&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=1YO1Udj-M4vbkgXQ1YHICw&sqi=2&ved=0CEAQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=624

Should we not be putting wheat husk pellets in small biochar-producing
stoves throughout all regions of the world where wheat is grown? Of course
wheat straw can also be pelletized, and the same question can be asked?
Furthermore, why are we, in developed countries, so eager to burn fossil
fuels to cook our food, given the ocean of agricultural wastes that we are
swimming in? Why do we focus only on developing countries? And in switching
to waste biomass fuels, we do not have to cut down a single tree.

Today I just found out something quite interesting. The Vietnamese
government obliges rice mills, who export rice, to pelletize their rice
hulls rather than uselessly burn or dump them. These rice hull pellets sell
for $76 dollars per ton delivered Saigon. This one ton of pellets will
produce about 330 kgs of rice hull biochar that sells in Saigon, as part of
a horticultural mix, for about the same price as the one ton of pellets.
Why on earth should the Vietnamese be using bottled gas, kerosene or coal
to cook food when agricultural residues are so abundant?

Paul Olivier

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