[TheForge] eco coke

[Mike Payson]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Wesley Marquart <marquart at arlinn-tower.com
> wrote:

> Sounds like they are making plain old hardwood <charcoal> to me...
>
> 1500 C. = 2732 degree F.  Heck throw a blower on hardwood charcoal and you
> can melt iron ore and get iron/steel out of the rock...
>
> I smell a PC/Greenie scam on this one...  Not accusing you Jerry - just the
> guys who are promoting 'Eco Coke' - they are probably just jumping on the
> Green Bandwagon...
>

Assuming they are talking about Biochar, there is nothing ecoscammy about
it. It is simply a way of making hardwood Charcoal that burns the toxic
gases that would normally be released during it's production. Even if you
don't care about the environmental benefits you should like this much: It
takes up to 75% less fuel wood to make the same amount of traditionally-made
charcoal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXMUmby8PpU

The process is easy to do at home, as that video shows.

The one issue that I am not certain about is whether the resulting charcoal
is suitable for use as a fuel. Most references I see for it refer to it's
use in gardening, it is not clear whether the hot burn burns off too many
volatiles to make the resulting product burn hot enough for use as fuel. If
someone has more info I would love to see it.

Sorry been a long day and <all> the joints are hurting... :)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jerry Smith
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 11:39 PM
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> Subject: [TheForge] eco coke
>
> I saw that the Japanese are making Eco Coke out of wood, suppose to heat to
> 1,500 C. They mentioned it was being made some where in states, does any
> one
> know where?
>
> Jerry
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