<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Julien etal<br><br> A cricket ball has a 7 cm diameter. I think we need balls closer to 1 or 2 cm diameter (same mass as pellet?). They only make sense if they are close to briquettes in price; cheaper than pellets. I haven't yet seen a way to do this, with low cost hand-operated equipment. For powered machines, I think pellets will be cheaper<br><br>Ron<br><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Julien Winter" <winter.julien@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Discussion of biomass cooking stoves" <stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, April 28, 2013 5:27:32 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Stoves] The Art of Using Grass BRIQUETTES in TLUD Stoves<br><br>Hi Stovers;<br><br>Thanks for your encouragement to use briquettes. We will have to give<br>this a go, because I think it is the appropriate technology for our<br>needs. It is something that can be afforded in rural Bangladesh, plus<br>create some small village businesses, plus create stored fuel, plus<br>increase cooking efficiency, plus save trees, and the biochar can<br>assist recycling plant nutrients from waste into the household<br>gardens.<br><br>I like the idea of spherical briquettes so much that I almost ...<br>ALMOST ... started a new topic on "The Art of Making Grass Cricket<br>Balls"<br><br>Cheers,<br>Julien<br><br>-- <br>Julien Winter<br>Cobourg, ON, CANADA<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Stoves mailing list<br><br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br>stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org<br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br>http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org<br><br>for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site:<br>http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/<br><br></div></body></html>