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ContiDrif
Echotech
Farm Radio Weekly
Gaia Movement Trust
Gorilla CD
Legacy Foundation Manual
Picasa Web

ContiDrif

Article and photograph of a handmade briquette press, with details on the various types of materials that can be used to create the briquettes. Links to other resources are available.

http://www.continentaldrift.net/2006/03/17/briquette-press-saving-trees-and-people/

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Echotech

This document on the Echo web site illustrates how a briquette press produces briquettes used for alternative energy use.

http://www.echotech.org/mambo/images/DocMan/BriquettePresses07.pdf

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Farm Radio Weekly

This article from Farm Radio Weekly is entitled, East Africa: Handmade banana briquettes could replace firewood (BBC News).

http://weekly.farmradio.org/2009/05/18/2-east-africa-handmade-banana-briquettes-could-replace-firewood-bbc-news/

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Gaia Movement Trust

Downloadable document from ECHO containing instructions for building a briquette press.

http://www.gaia-movement.org/files/manual%206e%20Briquete%20Press%20ECHO.pdf

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Gorilla CD

An illustrated blog entry on building a briquette press from treated lumber.

http://gorillacd.org/2008/04/11/building-a-briquette-press/

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Legacy Foundation Manual

This manual, available in PDF download, provides all that is required to make a Briquette Press Kit. It is posted on the University of Oakland web site.

https://files.oakland.edu/users/leidel/.../Construction_Manual_ver6.pdf

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Picasa Web

A photo gallery of a briquette press being constructed.

http://picasaweb.google.com/jandrewand/PressConstruction#

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