[Stoves] dung as fuel..

[Anand Karve]

Dear Richard,
 I assume that the dung tea also contains a few mineral salts in a
dissolved form.  Does the removal of juices from dung reduce its ash
content?
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Richard Stanley <rstanley at legacyfound.org>
wrote:

> I agree Teddy,
>
> Francis and Mary Kavita devised a simple way of removing the aromatics by
> just waking it out the way you clean rice , leaving behind a pretty clean
> fibrous mass for creating a good  base matrix for additives in
> briquettemaking by the wet process. The tea that driops out in the process
> of both cleaning the dung and draining off the briquette during compression
> is very useful as fertiliser at the same time.
>
> Question is will they ever get credit for it  and if so, how?: They are
> nine miles off the mombassa road near sultan hamud.
> Or will the more properly credentialed "scientific community" usurp it for
> their own edification...
>
> Either way its kstill a hard sell, na kubali.
>
> Mimi tu,
>
>
>
>  On Oct 2, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Cookswell Jikos wrote:
>
> Hi Huck -
>
> While I am not sure about putting char into a toilet - I just heard about
> these guys in Kenya making charcoal briquetts for cooking food out of human
> waste... they are looking for 15,000 grand here -
> https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sanivation-turning-poo-into-power I
> imagine they will need a very, very good marketing team to convince folks
> to cook on these though..
>
>
> Teddy
>
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> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Huck Rorick <huckrorick at groundwork.org>
> wrote:
>
>> We were considering using char in composting toilets.  Do you know of
>> anyone with experience with these types of uses?
>>
>> Huck
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andrew Heggie [mailto:aj.heggie at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2014 12:39 AM
>> To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
>> Subject: [Stoves] Fwd: Dumaguete City, Philippines -- gasifier stoves,
>> biochar, ecological sa nitation
>>
>> Rebbecca sent this to the admin address but I think it is relevant in the
>> context of clean burning. The idea of using the char for odour control in
>> urinals is interesting if it works.
>>
>> AJH
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>
>> Date: 2 October 2014 00:38
>> Subject: Dumaguete City, Philippines -- gasifier stoves, biochar,
>> ecological sa nitation
>>
>>
>> Ron, List,
>>
>> An ambitious attempt is underway in Dumaguete City to promote
>> gasifier-stoves in the public market to replace (totally ban or reduce use
>> of) open fire (polluting wood) stoves and expensive bottled gas stoves.
>>
>> The (bio)char is intended to be collected for use as a replacement for
>> the expensive deodorizing agent for 1) the water-less urinals of the public
>> pay toilets in the public market, and 2) the city garbage dumps to reduce
>> its PhP10 million annual budget for odor control.
>>
>> The city market manager, an engineer, has been introduced to the
>> Belonio-Olivier gasifier stove, and plans to have Paul's 150 gasifier
>> reactor fabricated locally (using the modified Belonio burner from
>> Vietnam.) Engineer Fortin's efforts in waste-conversion technologies have
>> the support of the City Mayor who has allowed him time to interface with
>> Paul Olivier in Vietnam.
>>
>> Dumaguete City has been listed as among the desirable retirement places
>> for North American and European expats.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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