{"id":55,"date":"2013-07-07T17:29:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T17:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/peat-reserves-in-burundi\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T12:18:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T12:18:50","slug":"peat-reserves-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/peat-reserves-in-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Peat reserves in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi possesses a peat potential estimated at 600 million tons.<\/p>\n<p>The exploitable potential would be around 47 to 58 million tons.<\/p>\n<p>Annual production is estimated 10 000 tons of dry peat at 30% humidity per year.<\/p>\n<p>The management of the peat is the responsibility of the National Peat Office (ONATOUR).<\/p>\n<p>The use of peat for electrical production is possible in Burundi through construction of thermal plant based on peat which can generate electricity of 20MW<\/p>\n<p>Carbonization of peat allows use of peat in households in Burundi.<\/p>\n<p>The use of peat was promoted by the Burundian government for quite a long time because it is beside fire wood the only natural energy resource in Burundian soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi possesses a peat potential estimated at 600 million tons. The exploitable potential would be around 47 to 58 million tons. Annual production is estimated 10 000 tons of dry peat at 30% humidity per year. The management of the peat is the responsibility of the National Peat Office (ONATOUR). The use of peat for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4Xm5Y-T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}