An amazing use of locally available and renewable resources to in essence generate a portable energy source powered by little more than human ingenuity and elbow grease!
Amazing technology, in our country Tanzania we must copy and use such technology in order to conserve our environment. The use of charcoal cause difforestation all over the country. My self I have to join such program and train pour groups of women in my village. Fredrick Kwaslema. (Tanzania)
You are right. We should be doing this in our country. As Indigenous people's here we are very poor. And they are cutting out too many trees every day!!🙏
Those who are thinking that the main use of bio briquette is to stop deforestation and not it increase it but why are they using that lot of grass,trees branches,plants etc , it isso because they use eupatorium and lantana which are fast growing and spreading 🌱 plants. Therefore please stop comment Second thing they work for their families cause Nepal is a poor country and there are a lot of people working in these places. Therefore respect them at least they don't beg
I think they are doing a wonderful job and I applaud them!! I would love to see my country stop deforestation and begin using more Briquettes. We have one pellet factor here and it's huge. And they're deforesting our trees to send pellets to Switzerland. We don't have enough natural trees to keep a sustainable supply going at the rate they are.
Grinding coal is as easy as grinding Coffee. It does not need to be a complex machine, no motor, no steel. Just two simple circles of concrete with a feed hole in the center of the top one, some wood frame to keep the circles aligned. some kind of long levers to walk or crank the top circle around. simple design and any big pieces will be filtered out. If a source of fine sawdust could be found (or made), a small percent could be added to the charcoal to prevent burning all of the hydrocarbons before use. The sawdust would burn clean when in combination with the power dense charcoal. at least it would reduce charcoal production a little. 10% or so
what you propose is aa complex technology. how do you clean it? such devices lose their ability to grind very quickly so they require maintenance, "dressing" the grinding surfaces and so forth. While their processing has a great many inefficient aspects, to "correct" those, adds complications and capital expense. Often people have nothing and attempt to create solutions from that nothing. It is a matter of economics and what is sustainably possible from what is available (mom making sandwiches, is an economic enterprise).
+800lb Gorilla possibly referring to the ingenious manufacture of these briquettes !? Humans have been doing all sorts of things for untold eons. However these briquettes now will be made in a new cottage industry wherever this video is seen. Ingenious indeed ! I am going to have a go myself here in oxford. Thank you to the makers of this great informative film. Would be interested in the composition of your "soil powder" is it a clay rich soil ? would have a good bonding effect ( as opposed to a chalky, silica, lime, gypsum etc etc rich soils )
+Ob One again, there is nothing unique or ingenious about their manufacturing process. in fact it is markedly inefficient given the materials they have available. for example, they are not collecting and condensing the wood gas.
there is 2 things i see wrong in this vid : the first is poor working condition and not enough automation. the second thing is that the energy to turn the leaves into coal is wasted. the rest of the design is ok however you could make a better oven by encasing the heat and heating a mass like a brick oven you. could also recuperate the gases and have a 2nd stage burning.
There is a handpress with a bigger lever and with weights it's much easier to transmit more power especially for the woman. How do you light up the briquettes? From below with some wood and then put briquette on top? Ps where is this factory?
They should be making the charcoal in a vessel. A 30 gallon drum, placed inside of a 55 gallon drum and wood surrounding the 30 gallon drum with a small hole in the top of the 30 gallon drum, light the wood in the 55 gallon drum, and you have charcoal. This way they can use more then leaves to make charcoal.
as long as they don't remove too much foliage from the forest, they are okay. they should also to use as little water as possible to make the briquettes.
Very close to a good thing, but the wasted energy and the pollution caused by burning it down to coal is huge. Sure it burns longer as charcoal, but you have lost much of the energy in the process. Much of the coal accidentally gets burned up in the process as well. I believe Biomass briquettes made without burning it down to coal will be much more energy effective. There will be burning problems, but these can be solved with different stoves or different recipes or percentages of ingredients.
Harold Westrich It is wastefull to a degree but it is simple, although labor intensive. The charcoal burns cleanly and reliably whereas biomass, like you suggest would need a more complex,and expensive burner to burn cleanly. The materiel they gather seems to be excess forest litter and biomass, basicly weeding the forest to create better growing conditions in the forest. Even burning the off gas to heat the drying shed would add levels of expense and complexity to the job which is in essence a simple way for the ladies to bring in some money.
+Harold Westrich Their process for creating the charcoal is very inefficient. They also aren't collecting the coal-gas, which is a very good fuel source.
When they cut the green leaves that produce oxygen they are reducing the fountain of clean air. We all need the green leaves that produce oxygen everyday. Also they are burning this green leaves mostly in the summer season I guess, when it's not cold, so they are not using the heat that is wasted during the process. Another product of this burning is the light, that is very useful when you put this material on fire at night to iluminate. Also these people are breathing the smoke during the burning of these materials, during the production process.
I really want to start making briquettes. I saw a video where they had a press that made more than one at a time. I think I will use my everlast welder and make my press to incorporate that design.
Peter Hall Solar energy does not produce this contamination of the air. Also these people are breathing the Smoke on the air during the process and they use too much time and much of their energy.
Not unless we can get it efficient to make more than it takes to produce the batteries and panels. Currently we aren't there yet and is actually worse making solar equipment than what it gives back. That will get fixed in next decade or two tho. We need energy from multiple resources including disposal of our waste.
I have to wonder if it would not be healthier, faster and cheaper to just use a mill-stone to grind the char? Instead of beating the shit with a hammer like an ape and kicking up dust. It's 1000+ year technology, i know they have them in India for making flour.
From where does the money come to get, to transport and to make the necessary "foundation" to support and to operate the millstone--as well as clean it when it becomes clogged? We are talking village people who have little of anything. They are attempting to save money for wood, gas and petroleum fuels which are expensive or depleting. Beside a millstone is very expensive, and it must have some means to operate it. There are many places where living is a subsistence enterprise far beyond European/American levels of operations. This is not an ultimate solution, but one which "fits" a community, resources, and what is available. Often it is women attempting to solve a community problem. My concern comes with how fast the forest can regenerate the resources they remove, and ultimately, what impact with that continuous harvest have upon the forest? The further one has to travel and the more difficult to harvest, the less effective the enterprise will be. The land has it life jsut as we have life. To be sustainable, everything has to survive and thrive.
Better have much land with many trees. Only way to keep making Bio-briquette. Would be great for country people who have 10 acres and more. Can make these to use in your wood stove or fireplace. But making the burn bricks from junk mail is a good option. Can also cut down your trees, and replant. It's better than paying people for the firewood they sell. Always replant your trees. Will be a source of heat your whole lifetime.
Hi. In the video they mention of "soil powder" I suspect that it would be a dried clay to act as a binding agent, fresh clay would have to be air dried and then ground to powder... Hope this helps.
coal/charcoal can be be made into briquettes, need some achive materials, such starch or clay also ok, but for bbq, starch are widely used, we supply these machine to make briquettes
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buy an oil drum and put burnable shit in there. After that set fire, let it burn for a few seconds and catch fire then close the oil drum and make sure no fucking oxygen gets back in come back when the drum feels cold
Just a thought, would it be possible to replace the soil/dirt with sand? Thank you very much for sharing this video, its really good on so many different levels!
thepoultrypeople I have not made this, was basing my comment on my knowledge of the ingredients. I like some of the press form ideas, but their charcoal making is too primitive, smokey, etc. -- the fire department in my USA suburban neighborhood would visit very quickly. As others have observed, this means of income places independence and advancement over health and safety -- perhaps an easy decision in the limited circumstances. I would not do this, but I don't have to go back too many generations to find relatives doing similar things.
Glen Buschmann im approaching this from the perspective of a third world in which items like sand, clay, soil, sawdust, cardboard or paper waste are fairly common and looking for the ideal solution to helping poor people feed their families whilst also heping maintain a sustainable non polluting enviroment, thank you for the information, have you heard of rocket stoves? they are very good and highly efficient in their burn capabilites
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They're using biomass fuel to burn and make coal then compressing coal dust with dirt. Wouldn't it be more efficient and easier if they dry their harvested biomass fuels and simply compress those for a biomass pellet or briquette?
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relentlessmadman seems like a good thing if you ask me. Yeah they lose their jobs but life becomes cheaper and their economy can diversify as factory workers begin to create their own businesses or move on to help another business progress.
Natural gas is still much greener. Produces less carbon and comes from underground where no impact is ever seen, surface impact is insignificant. Most briquettes are a paper mix, and where does paper come from...
Dude....What are you smoking? it must be awesome!..... NG produces less carbon than Charcoal?....really?....WTF???....The Briquettes shown here are compressed Charcoal.....last time i checked charcoal was made from wood which means that burning it is carbon neutral....no matter how you do it you will never get more carbon out of the wood than it absorbed while growing. Briquettes are made with sawdust or grain husks and other agri byproducts....the only ones that are made with paper are made by youtube spamming monkeys to impress idiots that don't think very hard about things before opening their mouth to spew their lack of thinking ability all over the internet world.....in the real world paper briquettes fill the firebox up with ash in real short order.... Oh and last thing...paper comes from trees...trees absorb carbon as they grow (yeah ok there is some energy needed to process the wood into paper....but at least in the paper mills i've knowledge of that energy is gained from burning bark and wood not usable for paper making)
