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Surfer <no@spam.net> wrote in news:e6dpf8t7d7kame78gqrgk4sebv9210j0do@
4ax.com:

> 
> This company in Africa turns thorn bush into fuel.
>  
> http://www.bushblok.com/index.html
> 
> ".....We are creating a viable market for biomass products derived in
> environmentally and socially appropriate means, harvesting and
> processing invader thornbush and manufacturing extruded wood
> briquettes.."
> 
> http://www.bushblok.com/process.htm
> 
> "....Our briquette product is trademarked as Bushblok. Bushblok is
> useful for cooking fires, braii, home heating, and industrial heat
> applications. As a result of the extrusion process, it has a caloric
> value approaching coal, some 4870 Kcal. It has an after burn ash
> content of 0.35-0.5% and is classified as a Smokeless Fuel...."
> 
> 
> I wonder if a similarly useful product could be produced in Australia
> from bush understory that is currently burnt off every year to reduce
> bush fire risk?
> 

Possibly - provided the cost in conventional fuel used in collecting, 
transporting and processing it does not exceed the energy value 
achieved. It would probably turn out to be like culling feral camels 
because they burp and fart. Would take a hell of a lot of 4WD, truck & 
helicopter fuel and ammo to make any difference. Camel effects may be 
over-estimated anyway, but unlike cattle they don't have any PR 
organisations looking after them.