[Gasification] [Stoves] Dung tablet data

[Paul S. Anderson]

Dear Greg,

When dried, the rabbit droppings might be ready-made fuel for the TLUD
gasifiers.  Depends somewhat on the final dried size.

Tom Reed reports using deer droppings successfully.  But deer run wild, while
your rabbits are contained, and so the droppings are also contained and
collectable.

So, if the salts are absent, extra advantages might occur.  Please keep this
dung info coming to the Stoves Listserv.  (I have been informed that some of
the Gasifier Listserv subscribers do not appreciate the small/thermal-only
discussions.)

Paul
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Quoting Greg and April <gregandapril at earthlink.net>:

> Ever since I received this post, I have been pondering it.
>
> Not necessarily as a source of energy but as a companion to a question I had
> regarding a source of material for use in making char for Terra Preta.    I
> posted a very similar question over on the Terra Preta forum, as I raise
> rabbits and while rabbit dung makes great garden fertilizer, it falls apart
> and starts to wash away before to long.
>
> Unlike cattle, rabbits are lagomorphs and don't have more than one stomach,
> so to get as much possible nutrition out of the vegetation they eat, they
> practice a modified form of Coprophagia - that recycles the material and the
> bacteria that moves along with it, at least once.    As a result, the plant
> fiber is in a very fine form, and unlike for cattle most of the salts that
> you might find in cow dung - that as I understand it, might cause problems
> as ash ( or 'slag' for lack of a better term ), are concentrated not in the
> rabbit droppings but in the rabbits urine - thus providing a possible route
> to separation.
>
>
> Greg H.
>

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