Chile 2017, One of the Largest Fires in South America: Wood Ash Derivates for Industrial Applications [closed]








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**Hi:** We're a group of people who wants to help people, domestic animals and wildlife recovering from this fire.


[![A wood fire next to a road and next to some houses that were destroyed](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yWt8K.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yWt8K.jpg)


**Summary:**


* We're having in Chile one of the largest fires in South American history.
* More than 1,235,527 wood acres have already been burned
* The fires aren't stopped but rather increased
* People, domestic animals and wild fauna are suffering badly
* We're a group that wants to help in the recovery of the lands that have been burned
* There're several products with industrial applications that can be extracted from Wood Ashes. For instance, Potassium Peroxide
* Our idea is to do the following onsite:
	1. Build over a truck(s) a mobile laboratory
	2. Go to the places where there's too much ashes (making the soil extremely alkaline and hard to recover)
	3. Get some of the ashes, and extract a product with industrial application that can be sold for a price that produce profitability
	4. The profits would be used for supporting the people who lost everything, helping the wildlife to recover faster and financing the project


The Question:


* Are there Wood Ash sub products that you think are suitable to be extracted on site and allow the mentioned objectives mentioned above?
* Do you know a technology to be used to do the extraction onsite?
* Do you know a chemist who could be interested to participate in the project?


