Alternative Fuel to Wood Charcoal
Using agri-waste to make an alternative fuel to wood charcoal thereby saving the forests and the environment.
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Idea Description
We are proposing to build a factory that would make an alternative fuel to wood charcoal. Our project would not only save the environment (deforestation and a significant improvement towards eliminating greenhouse gas emissions (methane) that are associated with the normal production of charcoal from wood), decrease poverty through job opportunities in Kenya, create a taxable product for the government, and also supply an alternative fuel to wood charcoal for the people. This alternative fuel (green charcoal) is made by the carbonization of basic agri-waste products such as banana leaves, corn stalks, cotton husks, etc.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
To apply the money towards the purchase of the machine used to carbonize the agri-waste
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Also look at http://extension.usu.edu/forestry/Reading/Assets/PDFDocs/UFN/UFN1202.pdf http://www.fs.fed.us/woodybiomass/strategy/documents/FS_WoodyBiomassStrategy.pdf http://www.fs.fed.us/woodybiomass/strategy/documents/FS_WoodyBiomassStrategy.pdf http://www.aia-mt.org/Newsletters/AIAMTBiomassArticle.pdf http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5505203/Firm-helping-alt-energy-projects.html
I'm not sure how much you know about charcoal making. In our area of WV we make charcoal from wood bark. Thus making a valuable product from a waste product from the paper making process. The idea of making a heat producing product from other waste products is in place in several area world wide.
You may want to look at this website www.barc-usa.com
Great idea. Sounds similar to how Doc Brown fueled his car in "Back to the Future"