On 31/10/2010 08:14, harry wrote:
On 30 Oct, 21:06, wrote:
I was in the Middle East and saw charcoal shipped from Africa which got
me thinking. Rather than those Africans loosing trees, I wondered
whether people in ME could have charcoal from the bamboo tree and grown
locally with the salted water that was around me at the time.

--
Zamunda

No. But mangrove can. But it's all about economics. And muslims
don't give a toss about the environment because allah looks after all
that stuff.

There are some fairly salt-tolerant eucalypts around. too. But as for
mangroves, it would encourage coastal erosion if these were harvested
for charcoal. They are pretty fussy as to where they will grow, too,
which is why they are only in certain tropical and warm temperate areas.

--

Jeff