Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener
50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
E-mail:
(nameatendofline)@xs4all.nl : bakensverzet
Incorporating innovative
social, financial, economic, local administrative and productive structures,
numerous renewable energy applications, with an important role for women in
poverty alleviation in rural and poor urban environments.
"Money is not the key that
opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars them"
Gesell, Silvio The Natural
Economic Order
Revised English edition, Peter
Owen, London 1958, page 228
Edition 11:
The
project requires the supply of many water tanks, water containers, well-linings,
san-plats, toilet seats, and support structures. Many of these are traditionally
made from concrete, using materials that have to be paid for in formal currency
and are usually not available locally. Concrete and cement are environmentally
unfriendly and are difficult to dispose of after use. Concrete water tanks can
cost up to Euro 4000 per tank. Concrete products are also subject to production
faults and cannot always be repaired when damage damaged. They are heavy and
difficult to transport.
A
practical alternative to concrete, is to use a new-age gypsum composite product.
Gypsum composite production units can be established wherever there are local
deposits of cheap gypsum (CaSO4 + H2O) or anhydrite (CaSO4 + 1/2 H2O) which are
very common, occurring naturally in most parts of the world. They can be used to
make cheap, ecological, hygienic tanks, well-linings, toilets and other
products. Gypsum composite technology is a state-of-the-art technology
originating in the Netherlands. It can easily be transferred to project areas
where cheap gypsum and anhydrite deposits are present . The gypsum composite
production units can make a major contribution to the regional economy after the
project has been completed as well as manufacturing the products needed for the
project itself. They are permanent
industrial assets. They will be used to make various load-bearing structures and
other building materials. Gypsum composites can even be used to weather-proof
the mud walls of locally built houses and as a substitute for construction
timber, reducing de-forestation.
Gypsum
composites will also be used to make high efficiency stoves. The stoves can
stand temperatures of up to 500 degrees C. They will recycle heat from smoke
circulated around the pot. The stoves can be safely carried by hand with boiling
water in the pot and fire in the stove. Although they will work with any sort of
fuel, mini-briquettes made from bio-mass will be produced locally under the
project.
Gypsum
composites may also be used to make
solar cookers under the LETS systems in applications where daytime cooking is
not in contrast with local customs.
The
modest cost of production units for items made from gypsum composites will be
funded within the project by interest-free green loans repayable, usually over a
period of 3-5 years. The initial casting moulds for items made from gypsum can
cost up to Euro 7000. These costs will restrict the initial range of products
any single production unit can make. The top priority will be to service the
needs of the project itself. Additional copies of the initial moulds are,
however, very cheap to make.
The
entire system for the production of items made from gypsum composites, the
management of the deposits of raw materials, the construction of the factories,
the production and installation on the items manufactured will be organised
during a series of Moraisian workshops for which a separate allowance has been
made in the budget.
While
the workshops will work out the details, it is foreseeable that the production
of items made from gypsum composites be highly labour intensive calling for
minimum capital outlay. The products can be made manually without the need for
any machinery, where preferred with a professional finish typical of
western-manufactured products.
For
more information refer to:
Information on gypsum composite
technology.
Production of
items from gypsum composites.
PRODUCTION
UNITS FOR ITEMS MADE FROM GYPSUM COMPOSITES
Usually
three or four Moraisian organisational workshops will be held, one for each
production unit.
Indicative
participation (all workshops together)
The
Moraisian trainers.
The project coordinator.
The general
consultant.
Consultant
gypsum composites.
At least one representative of the ONG.
Representative of the Ministry of Health.
Representative of the Rural
Development ministry.
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for future
projects).
200 persons (men and women), indicated during meetings held at
Tank Commission level, interested in participating in the activities of the
factories. Where opportune, according to local political structures and
traditions, up to 25% of the people could be indicated by the local chiefs.
Duration
of each workshop: about six weeks.
The
Workshops will be expected to produce the following structures:
a)
Definition of the social form of the production units
- statutes
- rules
- professional and administrative structures
- financial aspects
-
relationship with the local LETS systems
b)
A structure for the supply of materials
- geological research for gypsum
and/or anhydrite deposits
- locations of gypsum/anhydrite quarries, permits
- activities preparatory to exploitation
- logistics
- coordination
of materials depots with the factories
c)
Definition of the items to be made (tanks, toilets, stoves, solar cookers etc)
- coordination with the other production units (specialisation)
-
contacts with families
- definition of requirements : articles and
specifications
- definition of requirements : design, productive capacity
- definition of the necessary procedures
- preparation of moulds
-
tests
- decision on priorities to be given to the various items
d)
A structure for the factories
- land and necessary structures
- design
of factories
- construction of factories
- purchase of necessary
equipment
e)
A production structure
- organisation of the production
- commercial
organisation
f)
A structure for the installation of the items produced
- Relationship
factory-installers
- Preparation of the installers
- Installation
-
Siting of boreholes/wells
- After sales backup and service
g)
A structure for communications
- Vertical, at project level (project
coordinator, factory manager, factory commissions, installers, end users)
-
Horizontal, between production units
- With the local money LETS systems
- Commercial, radio, website
Forward:
production of mini-briquettes.
List of drawings and
graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key
words.
List of
abbreviations used.
Documents for
funding applications.