We just couldn’t resist preempting Steve Jobs‘ announcement of the next hot Apple gadget with our own launch today, the world’s first:
As we indicated before, the index will track the price of biomass and related fuels around the world.
The tool is a work in progress and you can expect to see greater functionality with each new version.
Ultimately, however, the index will only succeed if you help us by contributing information from wherever you are.
You can email your data to: index[at]charcoalproject[dot]org
Please make certain you contribute at least the fields in red!
Location: (Province, district, town, city, etc. Multiple locations are encouraged!)
Country:
Date:
Type of biomass: (Please be as descriptive as possible, ie: heavy/light charchoal, briquettes type, wood type, etc.)
Local unit of measure: (kg, sack, pound, coffee can, jug, etc. Please be as descriptive or aproximative as possible as the units will be standardized later.)
Price in local currency: (Is the price wholesale or retail?)
Conversion rate of local currency to Euros & USD: (We can do this on our end if you don’t know. Click here for Google’s handy online converter.)
Information about alternative fuel of choice, if available: (Charcoal vs LPG, or charcoal vs woodfuel, or charcoal vs briquettes, or briquettes vs LPG, or charcoal vs kerosene, you get the idea…)
Unit of measure: (100lbs cylinder of LPG, for example, or one gallon/liter of kerosene, etc.)
Local cost of alternative fuel per unit of measure:
Person or organization submitting and email. (Emails will be kept confidential and will only be used for corroborating information)
As always, we welcome your suggestions as to how we can make this resource more useful to the end user.
A very special thank you to Christina, our Chief Technology Goddess, for making this happen!
And thank you for supporting The Charcoal Project in our effort to build the global network of biomass energy stakeholders.
— The team at The Charcoal Project
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Rice husk- free, Sawdust- when bagged you pay a token.
Dry leaves- free, coconut husks- free, wood- less than 1 Dollar for three piles of long slim sticks.
PS- the above website is a safety outfit.
The above cost does not include cost of bagging and transporting and warehousing
Clement Aigbogun