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<pre>Brian

I don't know what Loxton is going to do but we have land located about 30kms
from our factory in central Victoria (Australia) in order to let nature do
the drying work for us. Beds will be made using sleepers as the formwork
with each able to take about 5 tonne of sansa (wet). A bobcat will scurry
around spreading the stuff and, come the Oz summer, we should have about
2.5-3.5 tonne of dry weight sansa ready for any number of applications.

A mudbrick manufacturer has already tested the material in a mix with clay.
It makes a delightful brick, structurally sound, but lighter than normal. A
house of peace on the way! Tests are continuing.

Compressing the dry sansa (or even wet with some modifications) to about 12
tonne pressure in a cylinder makes a perfectly usable "log" of firewood. It
will probably need a years aging if wet sansa is used. Most likely everyone
already knows that the sansa fuel burns quite intensely and almost without
ash. Truly an environmentally friendly fuel that has another sensory
benefit in that it gives off a delightful aromatic scent.

I was informed quite recently that in the States they have quite a novel use
for the pits of the olives. These are produced by the 100's of tonnes over
there of course. They are mixed with bitumen and then used as tarmac for
roads etc.

Regards
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