Plants as a source of energy
A beehive kiln that is used for converting mangrove wood into charcoal.
Wood has been a principal source of plant fuel for man for millions of years. Today, it accounts for almost 20 per cent of the world's annual commercial fuel consumption. In Malaysia, rubber wood is the main source of firewood, and is important in the rubber, brick, tobacco and charcoal-making industries. New technologies have been devised to turn wood left over or residue from manufacturing processes into other forms of solid fuel, thus reducing industrial wastage. Plant liquid fuel in the form of alcohol is also used on a small scale for domestic tasks.
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- Smoking rubber and firing bricks
- Tobacco curing and charcoal making
- Wood as solid, briquetted fuel