[Stoves] Cane coal in Haiti : CNN

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Friends

 

>Impoverished Haiti has sugar to burn
>Engineers: Cane charcoal could help solve cooking fuel problems
 

It seems the stoves used (if any) to burn the paper briquettes were not
suited to the fuel.  If I put alcohol gel in a coal stove I would get
results of a similar nature.

 

Apolinario in Maputo is doing a pretty good job of combining charcoal dust
and bits into a paper bound briquette that is selling well in the face of an
LPG shortage.  There is no well suited stove for that either but it sounds
better than soggy paper in Haiti. 

 

Use paper as a cheap binder.  End of short story.  Of course you have to dry
it....

 

Regards

Crispin