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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear George of the J<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It is good to hear that you look back at the project as somewhat successful. It was a high target and you did a good job of localising production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It is also heartening to hear you may be reviving it from the shadows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks for the photos. As a former cabinet maker I agree that we should turn tress into works of art, and burn the old furniture when it is ‘fully
dried’, say, after a century.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Regards<br>
Crispin in sunny Ulaanbaatar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks for appreciating something outside the boxes we create for ourselves – here and in other places. My take is that wood is too precious to
burn. I’m sure somebody did the figures to prove that there is enough waste – natural and man-made – that we can recycle and use, like biomass briquettes, so we don’t have to totally deforest this ONE planet we have.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Combine this with raising awareness at grass roots level, more efficient stoves, intensive but
<b>sensitive</b> tree planting (just been reading this from India <a href="https://news.trust.org/item/20170809152955-4xaln/">
https://news.trust.org/item/20170809152955-4xaln/</a> ) AND management and we would be a big step closer to dealing with our issues. The “ever shrinking jungle” goes back 10 years when I joined the list, watching our tree cover in The Gambia disappear slowly
but surely. Millions of bucks of project funding spent, mismanagement, greed and corruption under a dictator for 22 years… just the usual human follies…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Not sure about the epidemic you have read somewhere…. I know here Malaria is on the increase again, early child mortality too due to bad nutrition,
migration the “back way” by the youth to “greener fields” on the bottom of the Mediterranean, over fishing by Chinese “donors” off our coast, illegal logging of rare woods and export to mainly China. Our new Government are trying hard but the previous guy
totally bled the country and a whole generation has never seen anything else so it will take some time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">We did do a stove and briquetting pilot (with the help of Crispin and Richard) rather successfully about 5 years ago so now that we slowly getting
more approachable people into positions we will start picking this up again and try to push it forward! One tree at a time
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> Nikhil Desai [<a href="mailto:pienergy2008@gmail.com">mailto:pienergy2008@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 10 August 2017 16:26<br>
<b>To:</b> Discussion of biomass cooking stoves<br>
<b>Cc:</b> George Riegg<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stoves] Biomass briquetting tangents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Wonderful. Thank you for sharing it here. Yes, "wood is not only for burning". Back a hundred years ago, a Home Economics student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, had published a paper on evaluation of fuels and stoves, where she wrote (I am
writing from memory), "Wood is too valuable for other uses" (than burning as cooking fuel). <br>
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Never been to the Gambia but alarmed at your mention "ever shrinking jungle". That is partly the reason for the disease epidemic, no? <br>
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Maybe "more efficient woodstoves" will some day protect enough forests so we will be saved from pandemics originating in forests. <br>
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Nikhil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:06 AM, icecool <<a href="mailto:icecool@qanet.gm" target="_blank">icecool@qanet.gm</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">It’s slightly off topic but I just felt I need to share this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">A year ago I needed a hernia operation and my doctor prescribed 3 weeks of light duty. As I always found it hard to just sit with idle hands I started fiddling
with some of our sawdust and paper briquettes and wood hanging around the compound. One year on and we are now at the stage where we want to put an exhibition together – together with other wood carvings using re-purposed waste wood – to be used to raise awareness,
show the beauty of wood and hopefully raise some cash to help us in our work. Maybe this can act as inspiration to someone – wood is not only for burning!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Title: 3 – 2 – 1 – Thunk</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">. Human tenacity and folly. Try and try again (hard to see from this angle, but the guy who just got
launched is sticking in the boot, head first)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Materials: Briqettes, Mimosa root for the steps, wooden beads and matchsticks, base cut from an old diseased shade tree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB"><img border="0" width="353" height="479" style="width:3.675in;height:4.9916in" id="m_3615051578278621473Picture_x0020_0" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D312F4.7DB4AFB0" alt="3-2-1 thunk.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Title: Hey man – Walk the Talk!</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> Speaks for himself and totally cracks me up…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Materials: Briquettes for the boots, bits of Mimosa, shaped and glued together, base as above.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Title: Building Bridges</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">. The meeting of “black” and “white” across the chasm – no matter how hard it is sometimes, it’s always
worth the risk to TRY!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Materials: Briquettes with embedded wire,
<span class="m3615051578278621473hascaption">mounted on a repurposed Umbrella Tree plank and populated by "beadheads" meeting on a rickety bridge made from wire and Mimosa slivers.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Title: Heads or Tales</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">. This one just shows the beauty of natural wood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="m3615051578278621473hascaption">A mimosa chunk cut to reveal the patterns inside, with a noticeable head...mounted on a piece of repurposed redwood roof beam.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">George from the ever shrinking jungle!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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