Dear Kobus, what is the meaning of EIA? Yours A.D.K. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:14 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Anand and Crispin. > These pine plantations had typically 25 year felling rotations resulting in > thick pine needle layers. When I was a kid we used to make sleighs from > galvanized sheet metal and wood and skidded across the needles at breakneck > speed. We may not have had snow in Christmas but this was the closest thing > to it - and the end of the skid path at the bottom consisted of a carpet of > needles neatly rolled into a heap. I distinctly remember the smell and I now > know it was mychorhiza. > > The sawmill industry has changed since then and now sawmills can take smaller > diameter pine as young as 14 years old provided a proper thinning and pruning > regime was followed - resulting in a thinner pine needle bed. > AD it will be difficult for someone to pyrolyse the pine needles in the > plantation without having been subjected to an EIA - I have been told. > 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. > > Regards > > Kobus > > Cropped sections: > <Under these forests there are 60cm deep layers of pine needles that have > dropped from the trees above.> > > <A voluntary agency in the Himalayan region > introduced our charring kiln into their locality so that all the pine > needles could be charred and briquetted and used as domestic fuel. One > could perhaps use the same strategy in S.Africa> > > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > >
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