Bamboo charcoal has many known advantages. Its porosity makes it excellent for use in water filtration systems, but better yet its use as burning fuel can have huge positive implications in areas around the world where there is a major need for a natural cooking fuel. Bamboo briquettes utilize the waste from either cutting-dust or mulched scrap pieces. This allows the structural advantages of harvested bamboo to be utilized for things like building and designed materials while putting any and all waste to good use.
Amy Smith from MIT looks at the issue of utilizing waste to meet the need for cleaner-burning fuel in the rural areas of Haiti in this insightful TED Talks video. After watching this video I can't help but think of this country among many others that could benefit from the plantation of bamboo for the reforestation of hillsides. A plantation could create both livelihood of the people with bamboo briquettes as one of the many bonus that come with it. Other possibilities for unused bamboo is fabric and paper making.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Bamboo Dust to Cooking Fuel
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3 comments:
sounds promising... how does it work for water filtration???
From my knowledge charcoal is used as a filter in many modern home water supply and fridge filters in established countries. The fine pores filter out particulates from the water. Stay tuned as we will be blogging on a natural bacteria killing water filtration system we are exploring for the bamboo housing project.
very interested ...
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