If you've read the K-blog before, you know that we are big fans of briquettes. In a community like Banda, which is surrounded by one of Africa's richest forests, or on an island like Rusinga, which suffered from deforestation, briquettes are an eco-friendly solution to the need for fuel/firewood.
Thanks to our partners at Table for Two and Oisix, a new kitchen will be added to the Kageno program in Banda in the coming months, and this structure will be equipped with briquette-ready stoves. Briquettes are an excellent fuel-alternative because they use waste materials like trash or paper, compressed and dried, to burn in the place of firewood. Briquettes create less smoke and some more advanced stoves only emit small amounts of steam. They are not only a more environmentally-friendly source of fuel, but they are more efficient.
Click here to see a quick video update on our briquettes in Banda.
As Kageno's kitchen and feeding program make the transition to briquettes full-time, we'll host workshops for the community to teach them how they can convert their stoves to better support briquettes. We'll also sell briquettes at a low cost to promote a more wide-spread use of this fuel alternative.
Click here to watch the video below to see what kinds of stoves some other communities in Rwanda are developing to integrate briquettes.
The biomass briquettes are great renewable and eco-friendly energy resource which can replace any of the fossil fuels. Due to increasing prices of fossil fuels and increasing pollution through the industrial use of fossil fuels, the agricultural based developing countries wants to use the eco-friendly and cheapest fuel briquettes instead of the fossil fuels.
Briquettes made through the green briquetting plant technology helps in reducing carbon emissions and stopping greenhouse effects.
Posted by: Nilam | 08 May 2014 at 06:37 AM