[Stoves] Report on Improved Dung Burning Stove in Tibet

[Jeff Davis]

Dear A. D. Karve,

How do they make the dung balls? By hand or in an agglomerator?


Best Wishes

Jeff




On Saturday 26 August 2006 08:06 pm, adkarve wrote:
> Dear Jeff, balls and flat cakes of dung are made all over India. Pieces of
> straw and dry leaves are also incorporated while making the cakes or balls.
> They are used as fuel in household cookstoves as also while cremating dead
> bodies. There is a ready market for this form of fuel. A family having half
> a dozen milch buffalos or cows can earn daily about 35 U.S. Cents from the
> dung cakes. Dung yields about 2800 kCal per kg, if burned directly, whereas
> it yields only about 600 kCal/kg if converted into methane.
> Yours
> A.D.Karve

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