<div dir="ltr">Hello Kevin<div><br></div><div>I had a lot of experience with saw dust, rice husk and carbonized rice husk with clay to make insulating bricks. It is the bricks I used for our project with Ron Larson. My best mix is clay and carbonized rice husk (CRH) in a 1:3 ratio and kneaded very well.Unlike saw dust and raw rice husk, the CRH breaks down every time the clay is kneaded thus producing micropores each time. Having these pores smaller helps in the integrity of the bricks while improving the insulating property of the brick. Will tell you more in the following days. Too busy today for a series of big meetings. </div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Joshua B. Guinto<br></span></b><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Specialist, Appropriate Technology<br></span></div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">MSc Management of AgroEcological Knowledge and Social Change (MAKS)<br></span></div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Wageningen University, The Netherlands</span> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif">2006 to 2008</span><b><br></b></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Recipient, International Fellowships Programme Award (IFP) 2005<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Ford Foundation </span><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 11:53 PM K McLean <<a href="mailto:kmclean56@gmail.com" target="_blank">kmclean56@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We want to do this with our brick cookstove? Does anyone have experiences they can share?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Kevin McLean</div></div>
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