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<div>cattle dung, which consists mainly of lignin, is already being used in Asia and Africa as cooking fuel. The dairy business in India is growing by leaps and bounds, making India the llargest milk producer in the world. The dung is not being properly used. Making biogas from it is a wasteful and costly process, If one can press the dung into uniformly sized briquettes, it can be used as industrial fuel. If the dung briquettes became popular, the industry won't mind using briquettes made from human excreta as boiler fuel.</div>
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<div>A.D.Karve<br></div>
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<div>While I am not sure about putting char into a toilet - I just heard about these guys in Kenya making charcoal briquetts for cooking food out of human waste... they are looking for 15,000 grand here - <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sanivation-turning-poo-into-power" target="_blank">https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sanivation-turning-poo-into-power</a> I imagine they will need a very, very good marketing team to convince folks to cook on these though.. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Huck Rorick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:huckrorick@groundwork.org" target="_blank">huckrorick@groundwork.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">We were considering using char in composting toilets. Do you know of anyone with experience with these types of uses?<br><span><font color="#888888"><br>Huck<br></font></span>
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<div><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Andrew Heggie [mailto:<a href="mailto:aj.heggie@gmail.com" target="_blank">aj.heggie@gmail.com</a>]<br>Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2014 12:39 AM<br>To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves<br>Subject: [Stoves] Fwd: Dumaguete City, Philippines -- gasifier stoves, biochar, ecological sa nitation<br><br>Rebbecca sent this to the admin address but I think it is relevant in the context of clean burning. The idea of using the char for odour control in urinals is interesting if it works.<br><br>AJH<br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><br>Date: 2 October 2014 00:38<br>Subject: Dumaguete City, Philippines -- gasifier stoves, biochar, ecological sa nitation<br><br><br>Ron, List,<br><br>An ambitious attempt is underway in Dumaguete City to promote gasifier-stoves in the public market to replace (totally ban or reduce use of) open fire (polluting wood) stoves and expensive bottled gas stoves.<br><br>The (bio)char is intended to be collected for use as a replacement for the expensive deodorizing agent for 1) the water-less urinals of the public pay toilets in the public market, and 2) the city garbage dumps to reduce its PhP10 million annual budget for odor control.<br><br>The city market manager, an engineer, has been introduced to the Belonio-Olivier gasifier stove, and plans to have Paul's 150 gasifier reactor fabricated locally (using the modified Belonio burner from<br>Vietnam.) Engineer Fortin's efforts in waste-conversion technologies have the support of the City Mayor who has allowed him time to interface with Paul Olivier in Vietnam.<br><br>Dumaguete City has been listed as among the desirable retirement places for North American and European expats.<br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Stoves mailing list<br><br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br><a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site:<br><a href="http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/" target="_blank">http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/</a><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Stoves mailing list<br><br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br><a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site:<br><a href="http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/" target="_blank">http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>***<br>Dr. A.D. Karve<br>Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)<br><br>