[Bioconversion] Newspaper Fireball Update 1-4-06

[Jeff Davis]

Dear List,

The newspaper fireball turned out better than I thought it would. I made
no attempt to remove the water from the pulp (for lack of a better word).
But the fireballs still formed. They looked way too wet to ever turn out
OK. After they dried out the fireballs became vary hardy. They really
stick together! Not to each other, that is. When dropped from 6 feet, onto
a cement floor, they sound like a golf ball or something like that.

There was lots of water in the pulp hence they are on the corky side and
took a long time to dry. The newspaper fireball has noticeably less weight
than the char fireball. The next experiment will involve removing some of
the water from the pulp before turning into fireballs.

I bet that some char dust added would help to increase the density.

I’ll have to post some pictures of one burning.






-- 
Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA