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[Cody'sLab] Charcoal From Cow Dung (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Another installment in Cody's "will it charcoal" series.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The issue isn't the smoke itself, but the flammability of the gas output - it means that you're losing hydrocarbons that could be burned for energy. And odds are that the manure in the retort part is also doing it.

This inefficiency is actually a big deal, since people use dung as a fuel mostly when they don't have access to something else to burn.