[Stoves] Cane coal in Haiti : CNN

[Richard Stanley]

Dear all,
I don' know if the briquettes which Amy and company are talking about 
are of our original hollow core design or another shape altogether. We 
set up hollow core briquetting in Haiti in 2001. They were using leaves 
straws rice husks, charcoal fines,  bagass--and some paper (the latter 
was not sought as, while it is very easy to make for the beginner,  it 
indeed will never burn as well as any number of agro residue blends.

I heard throu the briquette grapevine, that a group of missionaries 
took on briquetting on their own with no apparent interaction with the 
actual practitioners  and they burned out a few years later. Still 
others whom we had never heard of came out of the woodwork with reports 
of using the tech for several years and they were quite happy with it. 
All I do know is that a good hollow core briquette works very well if 
you know what you are doing. It is a smokey mess if you do not.

No matter whose briquette it was, the quality of reportage is lacking 
abit, in depth:  the story is far from compete. Crispin points out that 
the stove they used was not correct for his brick briquette. We do not 
know what kind of process was used and where they learned it.  Now 
could you Amy, kindly give us some details?

Richard Stanley

On Aug 4, , at 7:30 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:

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> Dear Friends
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>> Impoverished Haiti has sugar to burn
>> Engineers: Cane charcoal could help solve cooking fuel problems
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Use paper as a cheap binder.  End of short story.  Of course you have 
> to dry
> it....
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> Regards
>
> Crispin
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