Dear Anderson, Crispin and Richard.
The main principals for our projects I will call it community based
participation both for fuel and for stove productions. Utilization of local
resources with other words.. The Peko Pe is designed for production by local
tinsmith with the tools they might have. They only need a template and a model;
they have the knowledge how to make it.
First of all we discuss the need of changes, and then on the fuel
side we start up with registration of alternative biomass for fuel for
briquetting, energy forestry for fuel production. We always start with the fuel
.to be sure there is sufficient quantities and to an affordable price.
The charcoal business, which represents about 15 % of the adult
population, has to be involved from an early stage of the project. All kind of
activities on the household energy sector will in one or another way have an
influence of their business, and with biochar we don’t know what will happen,
but that is one of the ting we will try to find out. Any how for the charcoal
business it is just to change from charcoal to alternative biomass for
household energy.
The energy loss by production of biochar for soil improvement is
almost equivalent to the energy needed for the farmer to cook if you include
the African way of thinking time is coming not like by us time is running That
is a big difference. A household need about 2,7 kg charcoal a day for cooking.
Form about 10 kg of dry wood you will get 2,7 kg of charcoal for one day
cooking and no biochar. From .10 kg of dry wood you will get 10 kg of woodchips
and that will be for 2 ½ day of cooking into a TLUD-ND. and about 2.7 kg of
biochar. The pilot project will tell us if this is right or wrong..
Crispin, you tell your Chinese friends to start with the fuel, e.g.
like Richard. I think you know, when you have the fuel it’s easy tor local
tinsmiths to make an efficient TLUD-ND stove.and they need the job.
With regards Paal W [email protected]
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