[Stoves] Methods of Paper Fireballing

[Richard Stanley]

Dear Tom , Jeff et al.
  Agreed, Jeff:  The more we can do the better. Sanu Kaje in Nepal  
<http://www.fost-nepal.org> has lots of photos and experience in  
making such fireballs as do many others on the list with cubes bricks  
etc.... Its far more about mastering the basic  art of preparing the  
mix so that it will can be easily  dewatered and tightly interlocked,  
than the final form the mix takes that will have the biggest impact.

The one caveat regarding shape (hollow core vs solid core;  i.e.,  
balls, bricks, cubes etc... seems to be that shape does nto matter  
much when these are used in an improved stove.  In a open burn  
situation (ie.,  three stones / rocks or ??), however,  the hollow  
core briquette comes to the fore. This is because  the insulated  
combustion chamber and chimney effect of, especially a tall chamber,  
of such a stove  is doing much of what the hollow core inherently  
provides.

Increasingly, Tom, I am quite happily becoming a smaller and smaller  
cog in the growing adaptation of the tech per my recently posted  
Burkina Faso email from Steve Amodio.  Please refrain from referring  
to them as my briquettes, as they quite appropriately now belong to  
the hundreds of us who are into it.

Kind regards,
Richard  Stanley