snip:
The project is to run for 8 months, and will produce Public Domain / Creative Commons working designs, and support material, including a low cost biochar kiln wiki in 2009. Contemporaneously it will construct, and extensively test and refine at least one full-size ~1m^3 prototype best-practice kiln, including monitoring and control systems. The constraints will be construction at the village-tech level of skills, in light steel, firebrick and concrete.
It is proposed that we economize by using second hand and donated materials, and voluntary labour. We have been given the enthusiastic support of one of the first intentional communities, and the use of land for a kiln site, farmland adjacent to the site, and farm machinery. This way the grant money can be used to maximise the quality of kiln materials, buy the local test gear, and pay for organic and other test and certification costs that we cannot cover from our local community.
No comments:
Post a Comment