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Originally Posted by RCR
You think you're frugal? ---
I took this snap in Calcutta way back in 1976 - an old lady recycling cowpats to be used as fuel for fires. Note the clever use of (free) solar power.
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That is common in developing countries. There are actually programs where people build stoves that work specifically with animal dung and people have businesses where they collect and dry the animal dung for villagers to use.
It works especially well in countries where there are elephants since they tend not to digest their food particularly well and you end up with a lot of whole grasses and even bark in the dung.
In the US the supermarkets have a section on the store label area that tells you price per some measure of unit, it depends on the good so it could be pound or liter. It makes it a great deal easier to compare. I am not sure if they do that when goods are on sale though.