[Stoves] "Vom Pyrolysekocher zur terra preta" Workshop 11-12.06. --> Clay TLUDs

[abraham abyslo]

Dear dr karve. I have been to your website and was unable to see the
video on making fuel for your 150g fuel rice cooker. Sir,how do we
search for it? Thanks.

On 5/8/16, Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Julien
>
> I presume that people in Bangladesh eat mainly rice. We have developed a
> rice cooker, which uses about 150 g charcoal for cooking a meal of rice,
> dal and vegetables (or fish or meat)  for about 5 persons. One just starts
> the cooker and then devotes oneself to any other task, inside or outside
> the house. After about 40 minutes, the charcoal burns itself out. So there
> is no need to hurry back to the cooker to extinguish the fire. The charcoal
> itself is made from agricultural waste. It is powdery when made, but we
> extrude it into briquettes . I think that it would be an ideal solution for
> Bangladesh. A video of the charring and briquetting  can be seen on our web
> site, www.samuchit.com. It is not a patented technology.
>
> Yours
>
> A.D.Karve
>
> ***
> Dr. A.D. Karve
>
> Chairman, Samuchit Enviro Tech Pvt Ltd (www.samuchit.com)
>
> Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Julien Winter <winter.julien at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Dr Karve.
>>
>> It is interesting to see the contrasting conditions in South Asia.  I
>> will
>> have to ask my colleagues in Bangladesh how they forecast the use LPG
>> there, and whether the increase in export trade will make LPG common in
>> the
>> future.  At the moment, locally produced natural gas is an important fuel
>> for urban areas, but I am told that demand is greater than supply, and
>> the
>> gap is getting wider.
>>
>> I am assisting the Bangladesh Biochar Initiative, so you can guess what
>> our perspective is on LPG vs biomass fuel.  We would like to make food
>> production and water filtration a by-product of cooking.  Clay TLUDs
>> could
>> make the technology more widely accessible. However, good biomass fuel
>> (i.e., trees) is in short supply, so to improve the energy supply for
>> households, a diversity of energy sources is helpful.  Sea-level rise is
>> not going to help matters.
>>
>> Of course, ARTI is also working with biochar.
>>
>> Thanks again, for you insights.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Julien.
>>
>> --
>> Julien Winter
>> Cobourg, ON, CANADA
>>
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