Dear Gajin
I and our NGO Miombo are currently working on a BIOchar and household energy, pilot Project with Paal Wendelbos Peko Pe TLUD 6 liter stove in Zambia. The stove produces aprox 25% of Biochar. which is even better than traditional charcoal kiln. As we are revisiting the farmers that are included in this project the result are much better than the expectations. The amount of BIOchar after the flame is put out depends on the material used and how dense it is.. As for our project we are introducing Maize cobs as fuel so a 6 liter Peko Pe will be filled with about 0.6 kg of cobs. and then you'll have 150 grams of BIOchar left. with firewood you'll have aprox 275 grams of BIOchar left. Here's current status after revisiting farmers 1 week after introductions of the Peko Pe stove and BIOchar in Zambia. >The farmers found the Peko Pe easy to ignite. >They prepared the same amount of food as before. >They used allot less time, and fuel for cooking. and where happy they didn't have the smoke issue as from three stone fire they used before. >Some of the farmers had stopped using firewood completely >Farmers collected about 2.8 kg of BIOchar within the first week All though this was the first revisit in a very short period. The Peko Pe stove where accepted for cooking as well as BIOchar production. Either you can have many small scale TLUD stoves and use it fore food preparing ETC and later collect it, or according to Paal the Peko Pe can even be made as big as 200 Liter. Then you culd probably use the energy for other kind of heating and get allot more biochar quickly if that was purpose. But bigger than that I Don't know about Best regards Vetle Wendelbo Cappelen. Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:48:06 +0100 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [Stoves] Looking for a stove designed for larger amounts of biochar Dear stovers, so far I have been mostly just following your discussions as to learn as much as I could, now I would like to ask you for advice. I hope it is OK by you. Just a few words of introduction: I am a journalist, marketer and entrepreneur. This year I have brought the TLUD Champion stoves from India to Slovenia and started introducing them as well the whole idea of biochar to Slovenian farmers and gardeners through my blog, articles and presentations. A few weeks ago I had a presentation of permaculture, biochar and the TLUD Champion stove to members of biodynamic society Ajda Goriška; they were very interested in the whole idea, eager to try it out, but they all have larger areas of land so biochar, made by a small TLUD Biochar stove just is not big enough for them ... We were discussing to make a big stove and produce enough biochar for all of them and then imply the activated biochar to their fields. I am searching through the net to find plans for a larger stove, I have already seen some we could try out and we could make ourselves, but would also be very grateful for any ideas and advice! The ideal stove would not only produce biochar but could be used for cooking on as well. Kind regards, Bojca -- Gajin vrt, Bojca Januš s.p. Zaplana 54 f, 1373 Rovte, Slovenia, EU + 386 40 325 939 [email protected] http://permakulturazatelebane.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ 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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