Not to get political but your translation of the comment that having hope won't kill you-- nearly did here in Obamaland.. but he survives more in tact than many ever thought possible-- and probably for a far longer reign too.
On dedza pottery you must have gottn up there more recently. Greatly stop enroute to from Lilongwe, eh ? On stone crushing I have to wonder why a new form of post quake architecture has not evolved yet...Homes built up entirely out of rubble removed ex crushing or ith a minimum of same. Probably has eh ? Richard On Jan 18, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote: > Dear Richard > > >NPR reports that the crushers are coming in from Swaziland. > > >Now who would be supplying them from there ? > > Some guy named Arnry Mijon. The Mijon family is famous for making high > quality masons tools. He obviously moonlights for a no-income Social-Capital > company for fun! > > Thanks is also owed to John Currelley who worked out the sequence and > settings to produce that enormous throughput. I trust his construction > knowledge (he is a farmer from Ontario). He built a concrete house that > survived the quake, though it move about a metre sideways! Dang! > > I like the idea of making low cost stoves from a custom sorting of the > crushed material. The StOvs Cooker and the Esperanza come to mind, as does > the Lion Stove in a 100% pre-cast form. Andi Michel was working on that. It > was on ProBEC’s list, now sadly departed. The GTech guys are well advanced > on looking at how to make strong things from the rubble – exactly the sort of > skills we need for stoves. > > With that much material available each hut/refugee slab should include a $2 > stove with recycled metal parts inside. > > All this is happening outside mainstream efforts using nothing but local > labour. Maybe it will soon go mainstream! Ithemba alibulali (having hope > won’t kill you). > > Regards > Crispin > _______________________________________________ > Stoves mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > Stoves mailing list > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: > http://www.bioenergylists.org/ > [email protected] > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org
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