<div dir="ltr">Actually dung is burned in many place the Plains Indians use dried buffalo chips. I believe elephant dung is used as well.<br>I have used sheep pellets. I also suspect sheep/ goat/ deer and antelope pellets would make superb TLUD fuel when well dried. The Particularly in India the cow dung is gathered and shaped and dried. My original comment was tongue in cheek but world wide there would considerable variation based on animals and forage available. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Frank Shields <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:franke@cruzio.com" target="_blank">franke@cruzio.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thanks Michael,<div><br></div><div>So they just shape and dry them. No added biomass? like the chips they talk about? I’ve seen pictures of them stuck to trees, houses etc. </div><div>Then sell them. Some must be better than others - ash and all. And there must be special stoves to burn them. </div><div><br></div><div>Are they only made from cow dung? I would think quality would be all over the map and good the check if they are selling them. </div><div><br></div><div>Just wondering. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>frank</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="h5"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 14, 2017, at 5:31 PM, Michael N Trevor <<a href="mailto:mntrevor@gmail.com" target="_blank">mntrevor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_8430357728823078135Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>dung cakes are made by cows. No specificatrion cowas do not read instructions Grin. <br></div>Sorry Frank could not pass that one up----<br><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Frank Shields <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:franke@cruzio.com" target="_blank">franke@cruzio.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Greetings Stovers,</div><div><br></div><div><snip></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:proxima-regular1,roboto,arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Overall rural fuel inflation was 6.8% in 2015-16, which is more than two-and-a-half times the figure for urban areas -2.7%.The sharp increase in rural cooking fuels was due to soaring prices of dung cake and firewood chips. What caused inflation is not known, but it is likely that the supply of dung cake is falling due to fewer people making them.</span></div></blockquote><br></div><div><snip></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Are firewood chips that made from chipping branches?</div><div><br></div><div>And how are dung cakes made? Any quality control? any energy specifications? </div><div>How do they burn - flame? smoldering? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><span class="m_8430357728823078135HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Frank</div></font></span></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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