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January 15, 2001
Dear Jim & Piet & Stovers
Thanks for the comeback to my
question.
First let me explain what is going on in British
Columbia. Our Ministry of Environment have banned all burning as a way for
forest companies to dispose of wood residue, A few permits are issued, but that
is coming to an end. Several communities do not allow burning of wood as home
heating.
The B.C.Greenhouses are going bankrupt, using
Natural Gas as a fuel. Some have, and some are threatening to switch to (
dirtier fuel) Newspapers comment not mine. The one nursery that has switched to
sawdust has the community up in arms due to fine particle pollution. Weather you
burn sawdust or press them into briquettes, it's still sawdust.
With our continuous process, there is no extra work
to make fuel charcoal. We simply dump sawdust into the feed hoper, then sit in
the control room and keep an eye on the thermo couple temperature. The charcoal
comes out the other end, into a truck or super sacks for shipping. What's so
hard about that. Fluidized Burners are being designed for us to use in
greenhouse applications as I write. I agree, if we were to use the old fashioned
way to make charcoal, this would not be practical. Our new and improved
system
makes this a very wiable venture. More
comments are welcome, and if you have any questions feel free to call.
Thanks
John Flottvik
Open house on Saturday, February 3
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