Re: Stovers (including Lurkers)

[CAVM@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/3/2002 1:24:46 PM Central Standard Time, 
psanders@ilstu.edu writes:

<< This is an observation about us and our Stoves List Serve.
 
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Paul, I applaud your work regarding the Stoves list and "developing" 
countries.  While we do not ordinarily get involved in issues as small as a 
single household, I want to tell you some of what we can do on a larger level.

My company works in agriculture project management, which means that we help 
farmers, cooperatives, ag companies and governments institute farm related 
projects.  We might clean up dairy and hog farms, make energy via anaerobic 
digestion, recommend a direct combustion technology for heat, hot water or 
steam.  We can develop a greenhouse plan for herbs, vegetables, or even 
indoor fish and shrimp production.

We do a considerable amount of work in economic development of rural areas, 
especially for the benefit of small farmers.

You might recall a conversation you and I had some time ago about our 
projects in Kenya and Malawi to harvest water weeds from Lake Victoria and 
Lake Malawi.  We developed a plan for the governments to anaerobically digest 
the weeds to produce  significant amounts of electrical energy and still 
leave a good fertilizer or livestock feed from the digesters.  We worked with 
the company which supplied the harvesting equipment. The harvesting has gone 
very well but the governments have not decided to build the digesters yet.  
This has not stopped the Mexican government from asking us to design the same 
project for Jalisco.

We can supply a 6-8MW biomass fueled combustion power plant for about $900/KW 
capital cost.  It can provide dependable electrical power for $25/MW plus the 
cost of the biomass, at 15 tons per hour consumption.

We can process animal waste into fish and livestock feed where this is 
permitted.

We can help identify locally adapted oil seed plants for ethanol or biodiesel 
production.  We work in salt tolerant farming, producing meal and oil in salt 
water.  We can help clean up incoming water and clean discharge water.

We welcome a chance to take our experience into the field and help those who 
want such help.  While we cannot work for free, we do offer free advice.  On 
site work, engineering and economic studies cost us so we likewise must 
charge our clients.

If you think we can help your efforts, feel free to send us a note and 
discuss it.

Cornelius A. Van Milligen
Kentucky Enrichment Inc.
Ag Project Managers
CAVM@AOL.com

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