[Stoves] wheat husk pellets

[Paul Olivier]

Yes, Otto, you are right.

Big Oil receives subsides from the US government. Its lobbying effort is
colossal. It has succeeded in convincing most of us that it has all the
answers. The infrastructure it has set up is vigilantly supported by the US
military. In our design of stoves, we should do everything we can to make
sure that we are not taken in by their lies. As Shell Oil, says in an
advertisement: "We at Shell believe that the world should have a broader
mix of energies". And then they point to natural gas.

Paul Olivier


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Otto Formo <terra-matricula at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you VERY much, Paul O, for highlighting these issues on this list,
> again.
>
> Sweden and Finland (no oil or gas) has been using woodpellets for heating
> for decades and are planing Huge transfers of waste biomass to Jet-fuel.
>
> Only lack of common sense or hidden agendas, are putting these types of
> development on hold.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Otto
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:19:20 +0700
> From: paul.olivier at esrla.com
> To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
>
> Subject: [Stoves] wheat husk pellets
>
> *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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> Paul A. Olivier PhD
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> Dalat
> Vietnam
>
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Paul A. Olivier PhD
26/5 Phu Dong Thien Vuong
Dalat
Vietnam

Louisiana telephone: 1-337-447-4124 (rings Vietnam)
Mobile: 090-694-1573 (in Vietnam)
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