Dear Kobus It is nice to find someone with personal experience!
>Someone whose name has escaped me actually burned the flammable material inter-row as part of pre fire season preparations - and everyone thought he was mad - but he did prevent ground fire risk - and he was kept busy for many years. Have you seen the charcoal makers working forests along the road between Mbabane and Ermelo? They only pull out fire damaged trees most of the time. The thing is, the forest management has all the waste from harvesting (about 1/2 the tree mass) raked into rows and burned. They could just as easily turn it into char on a huge scale and sell it for some price or other. If char has beneficial effects it would go to nearby farmers. If not it could enter the briquetting stream as fines (which are worth about R800 a ton though I didn't check recently). There is just a huge amount of fuel there which seems to go up in smoke even if there are no forest fires. It could be supplied to at least some of the coal burning towns between there and Witbank. Regards Crispin _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] 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/
