Charcoal From Cow Dung
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Another installment in Cody’s “will it charcoal” series.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    8·
    7 months ago

    Dry dung has been used as fuel since forever. Usually not as charcoal though, and Cody shows why - low density, lots of ash, lots of carbon being lost to the air. (See: flammable smoke)

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
        5·
        7 months ago

        The issue isn’t the smoke itself, but the flammability of the gas output - it means that you’re losing hydrocarbons that could be burned for energy. And odds are that the manure in the retort part is also doing it.

        This inefficiency is actually a big deal, since people use dung as a fuel mostly when they don’t have access to something else to burn.