[Stoves] Charcoal & Stoves

[AJH]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:44:21 -0400, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:

>Maybe we should have a crack at making charcoal dust from it, creating a 
>value chain in the process.  It really i a pretty nasty fuel.  It is like 
>trying to burn a pile of string.

First step is to establish the moisture content of the coconut husk,
is it the same as what's called coire?

It strikes me there's never going to be one best route for every
waste, in a hot, dry climate Richard's retting and compaction makes a
useful fuel from non woody agri waste. Charring does have a lot of
advantages though, the normal criticisms of charcoal is its overall
poor conversion and pollution during making plus risks from CO in use.

As we have seen there are a number of ways of making charcoal cleanly
and using the waste heat.

AJH