Dear Kim
At last week's DoE meeting in Washington the chopping of fuel was discussed in the back hall. In the case of bananas (while still green) it is pretty easy going with machetes. However the subject of manually operated choppers came up and where the biomass in question is green-ish and there is a lot to chop, it might interest you to try something in the manual, rotating chopper line. There is a pretty dreadful small machine made in Kampala (rotating disk with cement poured into it) and at least some ability chop, but we were discussing something more industrial - i.e. intended to be used daily for years in a rural area. I can connect you to other interested parties who need such machines. This is a thinly veiled reference to my willingness to make you one. If the projects are going to succeed you need a reliable solution to the chopping - not have that single portion of the operation be the cause of the failure of the rest of the system. Regards Crispin
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