[Stoves] Cane coal in Haiti : CNN

Sat Aug 5 19:29:56 CDT 2006

Richard,

I'm sure there have been several fuels or stoves projects in Haiti. I would
think that unless someone is there for several years the view or impressions
of what went on before or in other areas might be limited or mis-informed.
It looks like the FHE paper briquette project may have been the one referred
to in the reporting. 

If I can summarize the projects we know of by region:

Region - Center - Organization

FHE (Fondation Haitienne de L'Environnement/The Haitian Environmental
Foundation), 1999+ Jean Andre Victor with USAID and UNDP, briquettes made
from recycled paper.

USAID 2002 replaced 47,000 wood stoves with oil burners.  

Cayes-Jacmel:
	Cayes Jacmel, Care-Haïti with Bureau des Mines et de l’Energie
(BME), réchaud amélioré prototype charcoal stove with GTIH (Groupe
Technologie Intermédiaire d’Haïti) 1982-1991 

Port of Prince:
	Kenscoff, Petion-Ville, Legacy Foundation with FWE Fondation Wynne
Pour L’Environment, Concern Worldwide
	Carrefour, Sun Ovens (IL) solar cookers with Friends of Haiti and
Good Shephaerd Orphanage in Carrefour.  

Gonaives:
	Bayonnais, Legacy Foundation with OFCB Ministries, Bayonnais, Haiti,
Reverend Actionnel Fleurisma and Engineers Wothout Borders, UC Colorado,
Boulder. 

	Gonaives (Northwest), Trees Water and People with Aprovecho Research
Center and AMURT Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team 

Cap-Haitien:
	Petite Anse, MIT D-Lab, sugar cane charcoal briquettes
	Cap-Hatien and Forte Liberte, Trees for the Future with Peace Corps,
Partners of the Americas and many partners, KJC and improved charcoal
production
	Village Planete (One Village Planet)Cap Haitien. Labidee - with
Royal Carribean Cruise Lines and Cap Haitien Sister City Committee comparing
alternative fuels with charcoal; Turtle Island; Fort Liberty - fuelwood
farming, solar ovens, furnaces made in welding school. Corporate sponsors
Citrix Systems of Fort Lauderdale Fla.and RCCL.

See links at http://bioenergylists.org/en/haitifuel

Tom    

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Subject: Re: [Stoves] Cane coal in Haiti : CNN

Tom,
Our contacts are Concern universal, with whom we introduced the technology,
indirectly, with Fondation Wynne pour l'Environnement
(FWE)  which been involved with the dissemination and transmission of the
technology of briquette production in the area of Kenscoff   and
Petion-Ville for many years and has worked with over five hundred persons
from students to members of grassroots  organizations. And again with
Actionell Fleurisma, a more technical group . Finally we have worked with
the Haiti project of the  Engineers without borders based in UC Boulder They
continue with local Bq production  in Boulder . Finally Concern Universal's
Dr. Keith Flannagan trained several local officials and a Peace corpsman
teacher who introduced it in a few local schools.

I guess its why this undocumented and half complete  story of Amy Smith, as
at least reported by CNN, is a bit confusing and irksome.

We can add charcoal dust (25% of the physical part of charcoal making is
wasted in the process ) and create full on charcoal performance but few have
to resort to charcoal use IF THEY are trained by others in their own area.

Richard

On Aug 4, , at 12:46 PM, Tom Miles wrote:

>
> Richard,
>
> You'll find additional links to Amy Smith's work and the D-Lab at MIT 
> at http://www.bioenergylists.org/ It looks like a student project with 
> her as the instructor. Her project has certainly gotten a lot of 
> press. She uses a barrel grinder that looks like Jeff's fireball 
> maker.
>
> Crispin's question about whether the stove is suitable for the fuel is 
> important, expecially with "unholey" briquettes.
>
> TWP and Aprovecho have been in Haiti working with the Ananda Marga 
> Universal Relief Team http://bioenergylists.org/en/twpamurt
>
> I wonder if Stuart, Jeremy or Larry can tell us if they have come 
> across any briquetting projects including the D-Lab cane coal.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Richard Stanley
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 12:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Stoves] Cane coal in Haiti : CNN
>
> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
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