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Coconut Husk, COCO Peat
For those interested in using coconut husk (not shell) Unprocessed coconut hulls make lousy fuel. Coconut hull fiber are generally know as coir.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coir It is a big business...
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cookpots with bottom peg fins
image: I recently discovered these aluminum cookpots with stubby rods welded to the bottom to act as fins. These should improve heat transfer to the...
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Demo of SCORE stove with thermo-acoustic generator
image: http://www.trust.org/item/20130723104434-3k5zt/Clean stove cooks up power alongside food Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:44 AM Practical Action and the University of...
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Reinforcements on the Holey Roket Stove
image: by Joshua B. Guinto Specialist, Sustainable Village Technologies1 The Basic Mechanisms of the Rocket Stove. With the lessons from people like Rok Oblak, Richard Stanley and the Aprovecho...
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VermiChar Eco-fertilizers, A DIY concept for subsistence agriculture
image: Attached are the trials i did with biochar from rice husks and vermicast. I mixed the two together and filled the containers to become my garden. Some of the lessons i learned1. vermicast is...
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Grass Tablet Biochar
image: The grass tablet biochar (pyrolytic carbon) shown above was made in an iCan TLUD with a variable speed blower. This charcoal was air quenched and is thus bone dry. When wet, it is very soft and...
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Seachr: A one week update from the field.
image: Hi friends,I have reported to many of you how fun and successful my cooking demonstration with Dr. Paul Olivier's rusk husk burning TLUD was on my 1st day back in San Jose. My thanks again to...
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Introduction to the “Quad” TLUD Micro-Gasifier Stove
image: The Quad TLUD has features for easier production (using tabs and slots, and zero rivets), easier shipping (as flat-pack pieces), local assembly, and greater stability and coolness of four...
View ArticleEco-Kalan & Magic Eco-Kalan & Magic Box Demo to Lakbay Aral
NEW to this Eco-Kalan Project's Lakbay Aral Video:1. Income Earning and Business Potential of Eco-Kalan-C stove Banana-ques as example.2. Outstanding Cooking Performance of the Eco-Kalan-C Cooked for...
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Open Source Rice Husk Design Notes
Marc Pare has a been keeping notes on his attempts to solve the problems of burning rice hulls in household cooking stoves in his rice husk design log: http://ricehusk.cc/goodboiler/In it, he goes back...
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Holey Roket Charmaking Stove
Joshua B. Guinto in the Phillippines used the Oblak Holey Roket stove as inspiration and created a stove with an extra compartment to store char until cooking is done and the char is sufficiently...
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Using a Metal Cone to light Biomass fuels in TLUD stoves
Lighting Cones can help make traditional and charcoal stoves light more efficiently and with less smoke than other lighting methods. For the best detail, download the Masters thesis pdf from Kathleen...
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Welsh Biochar making Water Heater
Notes from Ed: Hi sorry I havn't been following all of this thread, but I thought this might be of interest to somebody,I am a market gardener, I produce a steady stream of biochar from my water...
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More woodoil/tar recovery experiments with the Cookswell mini-kiln
We are trying to (a) reduce the amount of emmisisons from charcoal production and (b) Condense and recover as much of the smoke into a usable product for your home/farm. Wood tar - the following is an...
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Wocket Stoves
Wocket StovesSustainable Berea wanted me to build them a couple of rocket stoves to be used with woks for stir frying lunch during their local Solar Tour. I bought a couple of 14” steel woks for...
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Tacloban Visit by Jed Nov 23. 2013
Dear Friends As of this writing, it was just three hours since I was back from Tacloban City. I took the 13:40 flight of the Air Asia. The following are the impressions I gathered from the trip. My...
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Tests of the Cajun Rocket Pot
Dale Andreatta, Ph.D., P.E. November 18, 2013dandreatta@sealimited.com Introduction A series of tests was done to compare the Cajun Rocket Pot (the finned pot) with an ordinary pot of effectively the...
View ArticleResidential fuel choice and consumption in urban areas in the developing world
The Urban Household Energy Transition Energy, Poverty, and the Environment in the Developing World Douglas F. Barnes, Kerry Krutilla, and William Hyde March 2004PREFACE This book develops a...
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Low-Tech, Low-Cost, Medium Volume, Merry-Go-Round, 6-Burner TLUD for Farmer...
This presentation was put together by A.Phrao, Chiang Mai of the Warm Heart Foundation in Thailand. They are using biochar to attempt to restore fertility to badly degraded mountain soils, and to...
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ECO-KALAN PROJECT JOINS ITS PARTNERS TO BRING RELIEF TO TYPHOON HAIYAN...
Dear Friends,A few weeks after Typhoon Bopha (locally Pablo) struck eastern Mindanao in December 2012, I was introduced electronically to a young Filipina doing graduate studies in Saskatoon,...
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