Protecting forests with maize briquettes | DW English

A German-Ugandan partnership is using maize spindles as waste biomass to produce briquettes. They want to reduce deforestation and improve energy efficiency.
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[@davidpack5902]

Thank you, Friends, for the important contribution....

[@emilywong4601]

Sustainable engineering

[@norjannahlanto7099]

We have this town business where there is a machine that extracts dried corn from its cobs, all the corn will be collected and sold but the cobs are left behind and thrown in the lake because we don't know what to do with them. This causes water pollution and affects the current of the lake. So, thank you for this idea.

[@josephlubera4345]

Great idea

[@strawberrylala5529]

Is that a special kind of carbonizer or can any other type work?

[@williamolwoch-lalobo8219]

Am interested in the process of converting maize cobs into briquettes.

[@Seth9809]

I wonder how much charcoal production could come from means like this.

[@gerardovalledor9521]

Do you have any contact no. from Engineer Albrecht Schmidt.Corn cobs here in our place are only gone to waste when the corn harvesting is done.

[@davidchege7059]

Gerardo Valledor Hi, where are you at?

[@kingfrank6877]

@@davidchege7059 can I have your email

[@haroldknuffel7497]

mr Schmidt.Why dont you use water hyacinth to make charcoal briquettes?

[@julieybillz5875]

​@@TriNguyen-he7xk first charcoal briquettes made by water hyacinth in Asia particularly in Philippines

[@pamtechzambia627]

who like to have such machine can you provide contact details please? @DW News

[@johnswartz7872]

kudzu And fast growing bamboos