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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">not for the first time I try to bring giant reed(arundo donax) into the discussion.<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Here in Spain, we have many years of experience with it.<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Although being registered as invasive, it is quite easy to control by simply plowing and/or grazing. <br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Goats make short work of it by browsing all fresh shoots wherever they grow out of the designed area of the rizoma thicket.<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Arundo is perhaps the most productive plant in a wide variety of climates and can easily be harvest by hand, even without tools at all!<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">The straight growing stems make it an ideal candidate for use in rocket stoves, densifying can be achieved by just trampling on the dry canes or passing them through a set of rollers.<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Cutting the canes to an appropriate length makes them easy to handle and standardize as fuel.<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">And for more industrial processing:<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">They make excellent pellets!<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Their capability to clean dirty waters up to potability is legendary, building up soil in it's way.<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Seasonal management provides good shelter to all kind of wildlife during the main growing season, since there is a good time for harvesting during it's resting months in low season.<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">What more can you ask?<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Valuable building material? Yes !<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Cut in the right moment, it makes for strong floors, ceilings and walls.<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Wonderful guides for tutoring tomatoes and all kind of vines.<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">And last but not least, it provides the only "legitimate" way to cook a proper paella!<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Not enough?<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">I could go on and on...<br>
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<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Try for yourself!<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:09 AM +0200, "peeters frans" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peetersfrans@telenet.be" target="_blank">peetersfrans@telenet.be</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">DEARS,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> Sweden uses SALIX.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> Indonesia uses KNOTWEET 3x 270 cm (Japanse duizendknoop ) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The strong KNOT make new hollow stalks every year !! Only a knife is needed for harvesting . Cut each stalk chamber before burning !<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">F.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="NL">Van:</span></b><span lang="NL"> Stoves [mailto:stoves-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>Namens </b>Kirk H.<br><b>Verzonden:</b> woensdag 19 juni 2019 22:38<br><b>Aan:</b> stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org<br><b>Onderwerp:</b> [Stoves] farmed fuels<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have any stories about using farmed fuels for cook stoves. I grew some Pigeon Pea plants last year and the stalks burn well in a TLUD-ND. They died from the frost during the winter, but we did get a small crop of peas.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Kirk H.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div>
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