HEIRLOOM TECHNOLOGY
COOKING WITH TRASH
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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