Charcoal

Charcoal Drawing...

And those are the peat swamp forests on 20 meters of peat, the largest accumulation of organic material in the world.

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And these mosses, generated by decomposing, are like peat moss in your garden.

Set here the charcoal pencil size used to simulate the drawing.

In addition, the revenue generated from that charcoal is 260 million dollars.

So this is where we're also moving ahead with our charcoal project.

These are the graduates of the first Ecole de Charbon, or Charcoal Institute.

Here it is. So what is this? This is corncobs turned into charcoal.

And after some time, we developed a low cost press that allows you to produce charcoal, which actually now burns not only actually, it burns longer, cleaner than wood charcoal.

So we wanted to see if we could introduce this charcoal making technology there.

It had three chemicals we were really surprised to see sulfur, potassium nitrate and charcoal.

And he's looked at the problem of the health impacts of burning wood versus charcoal.

I denounce loggers, I denounce the charcoal burners, and that's why they think I shouldn't exist.

My colleague, Jason Peat, who runs this program, tells me it's 10 times faster and 10 times cheaper than the traditional way of doing things.

The kerosene and charcoal value chains already figured this out those fuels are ubiquitous across the entire country.

You can go to the most remote village in Haiti and you will find somebody selling kerosene and charcoal.

And we did side by side tests, and here you can see the charcoal briquettes and here the cow dung.

And he's found that worldwide, you could prevent a million deaths switching from wood to charcoal as a cooking fuel.

And you can make a very thick, sticky porridge out of it, which you can use to bind together the charcoal briquettes.

You'll find families like this who go out into the forest to find a tree, cut it down and make charcoal out of it.

But one of the things that we found was when we did side by side comparisons with wood charcoal, it didn't burn as long.

So we wanted to try to find a way to make a stronger briquette so that we could compete with wood charcoal in the markets in Haiti.

So, without romanticizing this too much, imagine that you light your home with kerosene and candles every night and that you do all of your cooking with charcoal.

Now one of the reasons why there are so few trees is this people need to cook, and they harvest wood and they make charcoal in order to do it.

When I moved into my new home, I just brought with me the things that I needed for cooking, an earthen rice cooker, an earthenware pot and an earthen charcoal brazier.

I know Bill Joy was talking to you about the wonders of carbon nanotubes, so I'm going to talk to you about the wonders of carbon macro tubes, which is charcoal.

Compared to the sugarcane charcoal, where we have to teach people how to form it into briquettes and you have the extra step of cooking the binder, this comes pre briquetted.

They can save the money that they were going to spend on charcoal and they can produce excess and sell it in the market to people who aren't making their own.

The damage was so severe because the primary energy fuel in Haiti is charcoal, which is made from trees, which is made from trees, and it's left the country almost completely deforested.

And in the case of the Viking Norse, the Vikings inadvertently caused soil erosion and deforestation, which was a particular problem for them because they required forests to make charcoal, to make iron.

What we wanted to do was we wanted to find a way to harness this waste resource and turn it into a fuel that would be something that people could easily cook with, something like charcoal.