Dear Alex, there is officially a ban on making charcoal. Several people who purchased our kiln and started making charcoal from agricultural waste or from leaf litter, had to stop this operation because they were threatened with arrest and fines by the forest authorities. The present law, banning charoal making, does not specify the raw material that one uses. It only says that making charcoal was prohibited. It is silly of the persons stoppinbg the charring of agricultural waste as they go entirely by the word of the law and not by its spirit. It is obvious that they would allow charring of even wood, if you paid a bribe, because wood charcoal is openly sold everywhere. The sellers claim that it came from a state where charring is not banned. Most of the rural householders use wood as domestic cooking fuel, and they are always left with a small quantity of charcoal in their stove. Our Sarai cooker needs only about 100 to 150 g charcoal to cook the meal for 5 to 10 persons. So the rural users use the charcoal generated in their own stoves. The urban users can buy wood charcoal from the vendors mentioned above. A certain proportion of them get char briquettes from us. Yours A.D.Karve
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Alex English <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15/11/2011 12:23 AM, Anand Karve wrote: >> >> Dear Alex, >> such a lot of questions! Here are the answers: >> > Such a long time! They built up. > > Thank you A.D. for your answers. > Here's one more. > Is it fair to say that the Sarai cooker has gained wide spread acceptance > but the kiln has not? If so what are the main > factors that keep the kiln and briquette portion of this system from > growing? > > Ok, two :) > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > -- *** Dr. A.D. Karve Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) _______________________________________________ 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/
