[Stoves] Rocket Fuel? (Paul)

[Jeff Davis]

Dear Paul and List,


Paul wrote:
> How big of a batch could you make in 5 weeks and ship to Stove Camp?
> Those of
> us there would treat them with respect and give good feedback.  Some with
> charcoal included are fine, but pure biomass ones are what we need most.

Today I harvested four 5 gallon buckets of good pond scum. Also had the
time to run it through the disposal! This stuff is better than paper, as
far as the disposal is concerned and I use less water. Clean and not much
smell. In other words it seems to be GOOD to work with. Put six miles on
the electric golf cart, today, for this harvest.

No idea how much I can make. I have a time problem. I'll do the best I
can! Fireballs and firesticks. Some paper but I will focus on pond scum.
Wish I had the time to talk about this stuff, oh well.




> Jeff, although there are different qualities of fuel, basically fuel is
> fuel is
> fuel, and the "value" is in the heat energy of BTU or MJ or kilocalories,
> etc.
>

Wonder where pond scum falls in Tom Reed's composition-conversion triangle
diagrams?




> BUT, what you have that is so exciting is a different way to "create" the
> fuel
> from low-value biomass.  Can you direct us to (or do the write-up with
> photos)

http://www.velocity.net~jeff0124
the above page is a BIG MESS so you have to just look at all of it.

http://bioenergylists.org/en/taxonomy/term/576





> of details about the "agglomerator" and however else you can create the
> fireballs (apart from hand squeezing).  When people can shovel in the raw
> materials and get fireballs to fall out (and just need sun-drying), THAT
> is
> what can make the fireballs so truly valuable.

Hand FORMING, do not squeez the fireballs (smile), is just for testing the
fuel not the agglomerator. Will the material bond?


> How could we make one
> for Stove
> Camp?

Cement mixer WITH PADDLES REMOVED.

If someone knows of a good digital camcorder that WORKS WITH LINUX, I
could get that and video some stuff for the stove camp.



> Low density is less of a problem if the quantities of usable fuels are
> much
> greater.

High density is for rich people that need to truck fuel. I/we only need to
truck fuel for hundreds of feet!


I'm at work right now and out of time. Hope I did not miss spell too many
words and what I did say is kind of readable!!


Later


Jeff



-- 
Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA