Rural households currently collect, dry, and store crop residues at a price that is lower than buying coal briquettes.
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Second, one must also calculate the thermal efficiency of a household stove burning crop residues versus burning coal briquettes.
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For most farmers, the cost of relying on the crop residues after accounting for their time inputs is still less than the cost of buying coal briquettes.
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We have been in heavy industry and have survived, in mining coal, in manufacturing briquettes, ovoids and bricks.
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The production of coal, including brown coal briquettes, amounted to some 16,730,000 metric tons.
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It is true that there was a profit on the briquettes last year, but these profits were made on the briquettes exported.
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This is the very familiar point enacting that briquettes may be sold by number instead of by weight.
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Then 2,100,000 tons was to be recovered from the pit banks and the various open cast dumps, and 400,000 tons from briquettes.
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The ration is made up of varying proportions of hard coal, brown coal briquettes, wood and peat according to local availabilities.
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The railways are taking an extra 600,000 tons of briquettes, and, therefore, all thebriquetteworks are running at a full rate of production.
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He says that they are now very fully employed and that briquettes are going to the railways in substitution for large coal.
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I have no doubt they could be crushed and made into briquettes, but briquettes are not particularly popular with the housewife.
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Last year, £290,000 was spent on research into briquetting, and a loss of £172,000 was made on the manufacture of briquettes.
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The trouble with making briquettes is that one requires a binder, and the binder has often to be pitch.
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Is it best to use them for fibreboard and insulation or to make them into briquettes that can be burnt?
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