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face="Times New Roman">Dear Corey and all</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">I will rather call it straw than grass. The combustion
system with straw as fuel was used as household energy in a refugee camp in
North of Uganda in 1995. The Latin name I was told was Hyperrernia Rufa and it
was the straw used for roofing. The bundles cut and transported by women was
about <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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ProductID="25 kg">25 kg</st1:metricconverter>. The soft part of the straw was
cleaned of and the remaining straw was cut in the right length
<st1:metricconverter w:st="on" ProductID="8”">8”</st1:metricconverter> and tight
up with a sisal-string into bundles of about ½ a kg. <?xml:namespace prefix = o
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</SPAN>I was working with handy-caped people that time and a lame man with
strong arms was cutting the straw with a machete and a blind man was putting the
cut straw into a form of bricks, which made it possible to produce the right
size, tied up the sisal, that was all. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The sisal string was taken off while the bundle was put
into the Peko Pe and easy ignited with some soft straw on top. Burning with
clear flame with high temperature for about 25 minutes for fast boiling and then
due to the fact the glowing straw did not collapse and the water continue
boiling for another 25 minutes from the glowing. Different types of reeds and
papyrus were used with same result. The system was used for cooking, frying,
baking bread and griddle. <SPAN
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</SPAN>We used papyrus with very high flame temperature for melting scrap
aluminium to mould pots and small blacksmithing from the
glowing.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>The charcoal business did not like the system of competition reasons.
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face="Times New Roman">For more information </FONT><A
href="mailto:paaw@online.no"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">paaw@online.no</FONT></A><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"> <FONT size=2 face=Arial>Regards Paal
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