<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><head></head><div><div></div><div> <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/elfuegodelsol.com/elfuego/">https://sites.google.com/a/elfuegodelsol.com/elfuego/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>• If you have a hammer mill,you can be the supplier of the resource and let others do the pressing of the resources which you blend bag and sell. Thats one model: </div><div>• The other is to put the hammer mill on a trainer and haul it around to the producers site as they do here in parts of Guatemala..</div><div>Don't give up.</div><div>This turn of events is an opportunity to reinvent your approach, stay in touch.</div><div><br></div><div>The Maya here have come up the use of--of all things-- ordinary bakers yeast /verdadura / to rapidly accelerate decomposition of ag. residues. (about one cup powder diluted in water can be mixed in with enough chopped biomass materials material for about for 50 briquettes (~715lbs dry weight) which adds about 1.5% to the cost but also decomposed materials about five x faster (in 2 - 3 days here).</div><div><br></div><div>If there is a need for the fuel you can solve their problem, and yours, at the same time. Go out not inward…</div><div>Will be here to backstop you if you need it. </div><div><br></div><div>Richard </div><div>Coban, Guatemala</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Dec 15, 2012, at 1:25 AM, mtrevor wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Richard and Paul</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Good to keep watching the thrashing machine
develop.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I got them to make up some briquettes that were not
all paper.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Sadly I was not there to watch and Ii do not know
the mix. I think</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">about 50- 75 % copara cake. They definitely do not
look like the card</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">board based one and the are softer. I am still
pushing for the inclusion of biomass but </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">am running ito resistance.
The </font><font size="2" face="Arial">claim is we compost biomass and we want
to recycle cardboard. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">A couple of strange asides. Because the composte
has a high percent of coconut</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">fronds at least some sources are saying it is "bad"
composte. I believe the issue here</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">is low fertility here means the frond composte is
not that high in nutrients. They are trying to offset that by including
</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">fish scraps from the tuna loining plant.
</font><font size="2" face="Arial">Another aspect is that because the briquettes are
made at the "dump"</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">they are dirty and "maybe" the cardboard has toxic
materials in it.. "Have they been tested?" </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I have point out the by increasing the biomass
content they can address several issues.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">The fronds can burn and "bad" composte
avoided. High biomass mean less "Toxic" cardboard.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">At the personal level things are shakey at best and
stink in general. After 28.5 years I was dismissed without notice.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I literally do not know how my family is going to
survive. The lights may go out, food a problem. Children are going to loose
an education.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I found out such reputable groups as the Peace
Corps, Yale University Cornell University and the University of Hawaii did not
report</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">various employments in the past-- no US SS . Air
Marshall Islands here has shorted my social security here as well. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">One ironic vindication. I was terminated Friday the
7th and by noon the 8th the aircraft was ground in a remorte location with a DOE
</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Team and the United States Ambassador. They did not
make it thru 24 hours without me, I havw been called back at least6 temporarily.
</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Hey at least I have my stoves, briquettes, and
solar panels. I am also a good fisherman and there are breadfruit and
coconuts.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I lived that way in the past and so does half the
population any way.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">At the Majuro Atoll Waste Company we have lost our
strongest supporter. My son Doan has pulled the plug and moved to the
USA.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">His wife needs heart surgery and seems to have
hooked into health services in Spokane some how. Doan however has moved on
to </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Fayetteville Arkansas He should
be starting a job at a waste management site there He hopes to get
experience and professional training </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">and try to get an educationa as well
</font><font size="2" face="Arial">to return back here later.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">. </font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">From the sand pile </font></div>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stoves] [biochar] Vuthisa
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<div><br></div>Kobus,
<div>Same goes for us too !
<div>Congradulations and tut seins,</div>
<div>Richard Y Joyce </div>
<div><a href="http://www.legacyfound.org/">www.legacyfound.org</a></div>
<div>Guatemala</div>
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<div>On Dec 14, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Lloyd Helferty wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Congratulations, Kobus!<br><br> Sharing with
the Stoves List...<br><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"> Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist
Principal, Biochar Consulting (Canada)
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.biochar-consulting.ca/">www.biochar-consulting.ca</a>
48 Suncrest Blvd, Thornhill, ON, Canada
905-707-8754
CELL: 647-886-8754
Skype: lloyd.helferty
Steering Committee coordinator
Canadian Biochar Initiative (CBI)
President, Co-founder & CBI Liaison, Biochar-Ontario
National Office, Canadian Carbon Farming Initiative (CCFI)
Partner of Toronto Urban Ag Summit <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.urbanagsummit.org/">www.urbanagsummit.org</a>
Manager, Biochar Offsets Group:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2446475">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2446475</a>
Advisory Committee Member, IBI
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1404717">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1404717</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42237506675">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42237506675</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://groups.google.com/group/biochar-ontario">http://groups.google.com/group/biochar-ontario</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.meetup.com/biocharontario/">http://www.meetup.com/biocharontario/</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.biocharontario.ca/">http://www.biocharontario.ca</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.biochar.ca/">www.biochar.ca</a>
"It is the path, more than the arrival at the destination, that is important"
- Gandhi</pre>On 2012-12-14 8:09 AM, Vuthisa wrote:<br></div>
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<!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEnd|**|-~--><p>Happy to announce that my company Vuthisa Technologies is one of 33
projects (out of an initial 252 applications), and 1 of 7 from South Africa,
chosen to receive funding from the Energy and Environment Partnership
(Eastern and Southern Africa), initiated by the lead donor: Ministry for
Foreign Affairs of Finland, co-donors include Austria (ADA), United Kingdom
(DFID), the EU Commission and the Nordic Development Fund. The fund will
kick-start the VUTHISA BIOCHAR INITIATIVE and is additional to the
Government funding we are set to receive from the Department of
Environmental Affairs (Working for Water) alien plant removal
programme. EEP will cover many setting up costs, but more importantly
cover feasibility trials of our 3-drum Biochar Retort. <br><br>This is also
good news for ALL members of this group as we will be sharing our findings
as we go along.<br><br>Now the work really
starts...<br><br>Regards<br><br>Kobus<br><br>------- Original Message
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Outcome- List of Approved Projects<br>Date: Thu, 13
Dec 2012 16:40:23 +0200<br>From: Gershwin
Pududu<br><br><br>Dear EEP Stakeholder,<br><br>We are delighted to present
to you the projects that were successful during the recently held EEP
Fifth Call for Proposals (CFPs). Please find attached hereto a list (Annex
1) of the projects that were approved by the EEP Steering Committee Meeting
on the 27th November 2012.<br><br>A total of 252 project profiles were
submitted by project developers from our partner countries during the
5th CFPs. Following an initial screening process conducted for quality and
completeness checking, 168 project profiles went through the screening
process successfully and these were further sent to national coordinators as
well as technical and business development evaluators to access each
project’s compliance to National policy priorities, technical and economic
viability respectively. Pre-selected criteria, which are in line with
the EEP’s CFPs Guidelines, were used to perform these evaluations. Based on
the combination of the results of these three evaluations, the Steering
Committee has approved 33 projects requesting a total of € 6,397,279 in EEP
grant funding. The approved list will also be available on our website soon;
<a href="http://www.eepafrica.org/" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span id="lw_1355490268_0" class="yshortcuts">www.eepafrica.org</span></a> .<br><br>We will soon be
sending further communication to those of you whose projects have been
approved, to submit a full proposal within 4 weeks of receiving the Full
Proposal Guidelines. Due to the overwhelming number of profiles received, we
regrettably cannot send feedback to the applicants whose projects were not
successful during this round of Call for Proposals.<br><br>Many thanks
for your participation!<br><br>Yours in Development,<br><br>Kind
Regards,<br><br>Gershwin Pududu<br><br>Energy and Environment Partnership
with S&E Africa<br><br>Regional Coordination Office (RCO)<br></p>
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