<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear colleagues<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anybody know any figures on methane emissions while making biochar or producing charcoal? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I recently got alerted about unexpected amounts of methane emitted from gasifier cookstoves when making char. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does that also occur when making biochar or normal charcoal? I guess a retort will be a good option to burn up any potential methane?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">During ETHOS quite a bit about the real -life figures about charcoal production were discussed but I am not aware of any methane figures. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any leads?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<b class="">Dear All,</b><div class="">I purposely did not fly from Nairobi to Kisumu (Lake Victoria) but i took a bus (9hrs) to see the landscape in Western Kenya. I was expecting dry land as the newspapers report about the draught and kettle dying in Kenya.</div><div class="">But to my surprise whole of the 9hrs of traveling we passed green and fertile landscape, old and young trees everywhere, some tree newly planted in groups or plantations, some trees very old and large.</div><div class="">In Kisumu/ Kakamega i visited the project of </div><div class=""><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.eco2ecilibrium.net/" class="">http://www.eco2librium.net</a></div><div class="">Which is carbonizing sugar bagasse and daily briquetting the char to be used as cooking fuel.</div><div class="">I was building a <b class="">Shelter Drum Retort Kiln</b> there, which i developed, for testing purposes.</div><div class=""><b class="">Cheers</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Chris ADAM </b></div><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""><div class=""><object title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" style="max-width: 400px;" class="" data="cid:389888B1-955B-4877-AE9C-BDD3AA1BB3C0" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment" apple-inline="no" id="1853FB41-2BC6-4E90-9280-FC08FAE0171E"></object><br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><span id="yiv6784840046m_-7880617388604173959ydp79993123yiv2218538341yahoo-rte-cursor-span" class=""></span><br clear="none" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>