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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 11
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 11

by Mark Frauenfelder
August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
7h 38m
English
Make: Community
Content preview from Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 11

HEIRLOOM TECHNOLOGY

COOKING WITH TRASH

By Tim Anderson

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The Chinese make fuel briquettes from coal dust, farm waste, scrap wood, and a bit of local red dirt.

Known for their ingenious reusing and wasting not, the Chinese make very effective cooking fuel briquettes from waste cellulose and carbon materials, using local clay as a binder. The briquettes are cylindrical with air passages through them.

An expat living in the United States told me he had a water heater in Germany in the 1960s that used the same type of briquettes.

The source materials for the fuel include coal dust, carbon from sawdust, farm waste, and scrap wood. The local red clay ...

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