[Stoves] Energy from whole coconuts / low-cost retort kiln

[adam u partner]

*Dear Ian,*
i would love to make test if my newly developed  *low-cost retort kiln* 
would work with coco nut shells too!
I am quite confident it would work very well.
I enclose you an information sheet:
*ICPS-Photosheet_brFO_adam.pdf*
*lets stay in contact
Chris

*

Hello everyone
I live in a large coconut plantation area on Taveuni Island, Fiji and we 
have a 'huge' surplus of unharvested waste coconuts. I can get them for 
free if I collect them myself, or can buy them @ US$5 per  100.
Strikes me that these whole nuts contain a large amount of energy, both 
as oil and as wood material. They also contain water of course. One idea 
was to open each end, perhaps with a 25mm drill, or bigger, drain the 
water, then have hot flue gas passing through the hole and the 'copra', 
thus drying it . At some point the 'copra' which is the coconut meat 
containing the oil would dry and could/would ignite. Then what, I am not 
sure. How to harvest this energy?
Some of you folks know a lot more about this stuff than I do, so thought 
I would pose the question."What alternatives are there for harvesting 
the energy from whole coconuts".? Are there any existing designs etc for 
cooking stoves burning whole coconuts?
Feedback appreciated
Ian

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