charcoal for Termites [slightly off topic]

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Taxacomers,

My brother-in-law has developed a process for mining the deposits of
charcoal dust (10% of the total volume of charcoal handled) in charcoal
vendors' sites in Nairobi, Kenya, and forming it into burnable
briquettes. This has been surprisingly successful, and there are vast
deposits of decades-old charcoal dust at the vendors' sites. There are
pictures of the equipment at

http://www.ikweb.com/enuff/public_html/Bluemax.htm

He wants to know if he should be trying to convince authorities that the
depletion of wood around the refuge camps in northern Kenya is
ecologically disruptive, possibly, at least, because of the removal of
wood that would otherwise be processed by Termites, and that his
briquettes should be imported to these camps as fuel. So he'd like to be
put in contact with some tropical Termite ecologists, to get a better
idea of what effect wood removal by these camps is having.

He's not trying to make any money on this, though it's turning out to be
a major potential source of fuel, which he hopes will displace a lot of
deforestation by making better use of the trees that are and have been
cut for charcoal.

Reply to him at "Elsen Karstad" <elk at net2000ke.com> .

fred schueler.
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