<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Crispin, Cecil et al.,<div>Sustainaible offtake is interesting issue with the non wood biomass briquetteer. A general framework of such an assessment we use is based on how much leaf matter is available on a sustainable basis. Ie., grodss fall off in kgs per tree per year, less leaf cover needed for maintenance of soil tilth beneath the tree's canopy( kg/yr.)--over the leaf-producing life of the tree. That figure compared to the one time or even coppiced life of the tree used as fuelwood. </div><div><br></div><div>Of course you would then need to subtract the published figures for the reported lower energy content of the leaves compared to their parent wood species, but it turns out that that figure also too has to be adjusted to arrive at a USEFUL energy content of the leaves versus parent wood fuel), the difference being found in <u>the form in which the leaf is combusted</u>, even assuming use of leaf biomass and parent wood species <u>in the same stove</u>. </div><div><br></div><div>We see and others have documented leaf blend outperforming their fuel wood parent species frequently when well formed into the hollow core form of briquette, the most recent test of which was performed by the wooden bridges trading company quite independent of any outside guidance or insight, here in Grenada Nicaragua, as we only recently discovered. </div><div><br></div><div>Richard 'el pelon' Stanley</div><div>suffering in la Laguna de Apoyo, Nicaragua</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><div><div>On Feb 14, 2014, at 8:12 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">I remind all as does Richard S that one of the obvious uses of char and char fines (which I consider to be separate resources) is as
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">Cecil Cook is one of those who has attempted to quantify the total resource available at the various stages of the value chain from the
standing tree to the cooked food over an urban fire. He has studied this in Mozambique with an emphasis on Maputo and in Lusaka, Zambia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">The nature of the opportunity is of course geographically distributed. The char remaining in the hole in the ground on the farm may
have a local value that makes it not worth transporting out of the region. The char dust underfoot in the city's markets is probably best used as fuel to reduce importation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">The additional mass of material available at each transport or vending node is a substantial fraction of the total resource. The national
and international marketing opportunities for these fractions would be a good subject for discussion. </span></div>
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<div class="x_gmail_extra">I want to thank Ron, Paul and Otto for speaking up on the need to consider the multiple ways that stove users and charcoal makers can derive benefits and income from char production.
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Finca</span>) buying charcoal from stove users in our program and reselling it as
<span class="" style="">biochar</span>, filtration media, as ingredients for cosmetics, etc.. I would like to join with the colleagues who have already spoken up and help you plan a
<span class="" style="">webinar</span> on the topic of these alternative uses for char.
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Thank you to Winrock for extending this offer.<br>
Please feel free to contact me directly.<br>
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