[Stoves] Biochar in the loo

[ajheggie at gmail.com]

[Default] On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 21:19:46 +1100,Stephen Joseph
<joey.stephen at gmail.com> wrote:

>HI Josh
>
>You actually don’t need a special toilet.  Just adding biochar to a pit latrine if the biochar is made from a grass/straw with a little lime and clay added to the feedstock  at around 450C has worked well in Vietnam

That lime and clay sounds like a good recipe for binding a pellet made
from organic material. Lime bound clay is sometimes used to form a
hard track base in UK, the lime being rotovated in to a clay subsoil,
it hardens like concrete.

AJH