Richard, John, I have seen these coal briquettes (not charcoal) floating around in South Africa, I even managed to acquire a box of them at one stage (stored somewhere now or thrown away...will check), and I would say each briquette weighed about 400 grams each. I picked up the coal stove that came with it (small stove with high density clay inserts, that did nothing to aid combustion) and coal briquettes at a give-away price from a local pawn shop.
Look at the picture again Richard and click on enlarge to get a good look at the stove and briquettes: http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/30800390/Imbawula_Stove.html John, why not drop this guy a note and get some more information? :-) Regards Kobus Hello again, John, Never heard of this: What is it made of and how much does it weigh? When you Kobus and I worked on it at my place in Paulshof, I recall that we regularly arrived at 2 kilowatts (+/-0.5 kw) from one briquette af about 140 grams but the burn time was only about 45 minutes to 1 hr...( it being designed more for cook stove applications). ould also like to see hat the mbaula looks like...Thanks in advance Kobus, et tu ? Richard Stanley NW Obamaland ============================ On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:56 AM, John Davies wrote:
A friend sent me this: A claim is made that a holey briquette costing R2 ( US$ 0.28 ), burns for 10 hours. Well I do not suppose much more than 500 watts would be given off. Haven't seen it before, any ideas ? John Davies. There's a guy selling mbawula's, and it looks quite well made. No smoke? Are you aware of it? http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/30800390/Imbawula_Stove.html _______________________________________________
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