<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello AD: Thats a very good question. <div><br></div><div>I do not know frankly, although, in creating a friable fibrous matrix like that, it permits the addition infilling of up to 50% (by volume and far more by weight) use of added ground up combustible material (sawdust /charcoal fines etc.,), it seems that the ash content will be largely determined by such as well. <div><br></div><div>Richard</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 7, 2014, at 9:28 PM, Anand Karve wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Dear Richard,</div>
<div> I assume that the dung tea also contains a few mineral salts in a dissolved form. Does the removal of juices from dung reduce its ash content?<br>Yours</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Richard Stanley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rstanley@legacyfound.org" target="_blank">rstanley@legacyfound.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Francis and Mary Kavita devised a simple way of removing the aromatics by just waking it out the way you clean rice , leaving behind a pretty clean fibrous mass for creating a good base matrix for additives in briquettemaking by the wet process. The tea that driops out in the process of both cleaning the dung and draining off the briquette during compression is very useful as fertiliser at the same time.</div>
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<div>Question is will they ever get credit for it and if so, how?: They are nine miles off the mombassa road near sultan hamud. </div>
<div>Or will the more properly credentialed "scientific community" usurp it for their own edification…</div>
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<div>Either way its kstill a hard sell, na kubali.</div>
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<div>On Oct 2, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Cookswell Jikos wrote:</div><br>
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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>_______________________________________________<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><br></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>
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