1 st Year that D11oo has had a full team : Members from Cheltenham Sunrise, Cheltenham, Severn Vale, Thornbury , Clevedon and Nailsea & Blackwell.
Tree Planting Project so important for all: Ted Potter from Nailsea @ Blackwell can explain how to deliver this : Inexpensive and so important!
In the last 20 years the commercialisation of charcoal in urban areas has benn major cause of deforestation : Kenya now has only 1.6% of the original forest area.
D1100 voted £1500 grant to set up Pilot Projects.
This picture shows the mix of ingredients: wood waste or sawdust, organic waste, waste paper, rejected charcoal dust, water.
Filling the moulds with the mix
The machines use manual leverage to compress the mix and remove water.
Here the briquettes removed from the mould : 12 briquettes per compression.
This student is comparing fireballs with briquettes : Fireballs are a hand compressed version of briquettes but are less efficient in some important ways.
These interim results from the pilot are enormously significant and give us confidence to press ahead with the Project. The ranking per criteria demonstrate on this simple chart that briquettes offer good overall value.
You can down load the book from this web site and read all the feed-back from the first event.