May 2011

Biochar TLUD Stove now selling in Australia

31 May 2011 - 3:19am

Biochar Industries part of Biochar Project in Kunghur Australia is now selling Biochar TLUD cook stoves as part of our plan to make more people aware of the benefits of biochar.

TLUD is an acronym for Top Lit Up Draught meaning you lite it at the top and the air is sucked up through the fire. Fantastic device that is light to carry and will work with all woods great survival tool . The best feature of this Tlud is when the flames go out you then have biochar. All you have to do is drop the embers on the ground and spray some water on them so they don’t continue to burn.

This particular model was imported from India and has a very nice finish and somehow I ended up with some to sell so I wanted to let my readers know first before I start selling them at stores and markets.

More on TLUD stoves http://www.drtlud.com/
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General Purpose iCan updated

28 May 2011 - 6:14pm
Gill

Jock Gill, May, 2011

Jock has updated his iCan instructions on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jockgill/sets/72157626640937954/

from Jock's email:

The triplets of triplets in the secondary air supply is a significant improvement.

The 18-12-6 iCan now has much greater total time with a very well behaved flame and an air fuel mixture that is lean to good for most of the run.
There are still several minutes of a too rich mixture that does emit some soot.

Run time on 350 grams was 27:45, most of the smoke was gone within 2 minutes, just two floaters, and the biochar had a good clean nose. This is about as good as I have gotten so far.

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3 rows of punches, improved iCan

28 May 2011 - 6:13pm
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Electricity from Biomass - the 2011 GEK Power Pallet

28 May 2011 - 5:55pm
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Jim

Jim Mason, May, 2011

The GEK Power Pallet, is everything you need to go from woody chips to electricity on a shippable pallet. It's built in California, and it's designed with the non-technical user in mind. It's designed for hands-off power generation, and the attached 2011 ALL Power Labs catalog shows schematics and details.

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2011 GEK Power Pallet 2

28 May 2011 - 5:53pm
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2011 GEK Power Pallet

28 May 2011 - 5:52pm
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Very simple 'stove' built into a wall in the ancient city of Acre (Akka)

26 May 2011 - 5:45pm
Pemberton-Pigott

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cooking places built into the old walls in the fortified city of Acca

26 May 2011 - 5:43pm
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AVANI CHARCOAL STOVE

24 May 2011 - 7:25pm
Sai Bhaskar Reddy
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Avani charcoal stove http://avanicharcoalstove.blogspot.com/ is designed using the most common empty oil tin cans (15 liters) available in parts of India. Steel mesh, rods and a forged iron grate are also used. This stove can be made with less skills. The steel wire mesh used inside, protects the tin as well draws in air. Other liners like clay, and any other material can also be tried. Recently trained women and youth in its production at Avani - an organization at Berinag, Pittoragarh District, Uttarakhand (Himalayas), India. Here the pine needle charcoal briquettes are used. This stove has some common features of My Home Stove 2. http://myhomestove2.blogspot.com/ This is light weight, requires less skills to make it, convenient for adoption.

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Inhalable Particles and their sizes - Chart

10 May 2011 - 6:00pm

Originally posted May, 2011
extensively revised and re-posted June, 2011

it's based on the following references:

G. Buonanno, L. Morawska, L. Stabile, Particle emission factors during cooking activities, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 43, Issue 20, June 2009, Pages 3235-3242, ISSN 1352-2310, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.03.044.

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