IEA: By 2040, SSA will see a 40% increase in bioenergy consumption and a burgeoning $70 billion USD industry.
Briquettes
Study on Briquette Quality – Please Give Your Input
Students from D-Lab are doing a study on what makes a quality briquette – please fill out this survey so we can learn how to improve sustainable charcoal alternatives! #sustainablecharcoal #renewableenergy “We are a team from MIT D-Lab Energy class and for our class project, we are exploring what makes a high quality briquette and how to conduct briquette quality testing. We are hoping to use this data to make recommendations about how to improve and test for briquette quality.” Please fill out the survey using this link. It should take between 5-10 minutes. Continue reading
Charcoal Briquette Enterprise Development: Lessons from the Harvest Fuel Initiative
Please join us for a special webinar exploring the development and scaling up of alternative briquette fuel enterprises. March 5th from 10 – 11:30 am Eastern Standard Time Winrock & U.S. EPA Cook Stoves & Indoor Air U.S. EPA | Winrock International | Webinar Archive Charcoal Briquette Enterprise Development: Lessons from the Harvest Fuel Initiative March, 5, 2014 10:00 a.m – 11:30 a.m Eastern Standard Time (EST) Charcoal briquettes made from various types of biomass feedstock have the potential to displace unsustainably produced charcoal and significantly reduce biomass consumption, but there are several factors that need to be taken into consideration before scaling Continue reading
TCP+MIT+ARTI = HFI in TZ
Think of it as the Higgs Boson of energy poverty alleviation.
Seriously, though, this blog post comes to us from Harvest Fuel Initiative-partner, ARTI-Tanzania (a type of Large Hadron Collider on its own) and tells the whole story of how ARTI, The Charcoal Project and the Scale-Ups program at MIT’s D-Lab are coming together to help address one of the root causes of various social and environmental problems in the developing world: the dependence on wood and charcoal for cooking and heating in the developing world.
NEWS: Fuel briquettes from groundnut shells
(Via HEDON) “In Gambia, Anthony Tabbal has established a business making fuel briquettes from groundnut shells. He was inspired to do this by his concern over deforestation in the country, with many trees being felled for firewood and charcoal making.”