[TheForge] eco coke

[Saint Phlip]

So,what am I missing? While the arrangement of the materials to burn
off is slightly different, I fail to see how this differs in substance
from other methods of making charcoal, using the off-gases as fuel,
and producing an equally clean product.

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Wesley Marquart
<marquart at arlinn-tower.com> wrote:
> Guess I kinda' jumped the gun on calling it a PC/Greenie scam then... it
> sounds like it might be something useful after all...
>
> Mike had mentioned the idea of Bio-char the other day (Thanks Mike! I'd seen
> the video before but lost the link) - what the guy is doing in that is
> <similar> to how I've been making my own charcoal for demos...  But I do use
> a retort method myself...  55 gal drum sideways with a pipe coming out of
> the bung hole, going down under the barrel, and using the wood gas coming
> off the wood to 'cook' my charcoal...
>
> The last batch I did (last week) gave me enough charcoal to fill an old
> burlap bag (roughly 35 gal.) to overflowing with lots of 'fines' left... I
> use a piece of 1/4" hardware cloth to 'clean' the char - anything that falls
> thru that gets saved to put into the garden and the big stuff gets bagged up
> in the sack...
>
> Kinda the best of both worlds...  Trying to make the most of what I've
> got... Heck I even save the wood ash from my wood burner in the winter... a
> 5 gal. bucket of ash is always kept out in my shop for slow cooling any
> metal I'm 'normalizing'
>
> -Wes


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