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  • THE CHARCOAL BRIQUETTE WAS INVENTED IN 1897, BUT INTEREST IN IT WAS SLOW-BURNING, SO TO SPEAK, UNTIL THE 1920s.

    THAT’S WHEN AUTOMAKER, PROUD ANTISEMITE, AND FASCIST HENRY FORD DECIDED TO RECYCLE WOOD SCRAPS FROM CAR MAKING INTO BARBECUE BRIQUETTES, AND THESE LITTLE NUGGETS BECAME A SMOKING SENSATION.

    BARBECUING WITH CHARCOAL HAS BECOME IMMENSELY POPULAR SINCE FORD’S TIME, AND EVERY YEAR, SEVERAL MILLION TONS OF WOOD SCRAPS ARE CONVERTED INTO HIGH-QUALITY CHARCOAL BRIQUETTES.

    TODAY, BRIQUETTE PRODUCTION STARTS WITH SAWDUST AND WOOD CHIPS FROM LUMBER MILLS.

    A TRUCK UNLOADS IT ALL INTO A PIT.

    BULLDOZERS BLEND THE MATERIAL CALLED FUEL TO OBTAIN A UNIFORM END PRODUCT.

    AS THE MIX TRAVELS UP A CONVEYOR, AN ELECTROMAGNET REMOVES ANY METAL CONTAMINATES.

    THE MIX FALLS ONTO A VIBRATORY SCREENER, WHICH SIFTS OUT THE LARGER PIECES OF WOOD.

    AT THIS POINT, THE FUEL IS STILL VERY MOIST.

    TO DRY IT, A WORM SCREW DRAWS THE MIX UP INTO A LONG, ROTATING DRYER.

    THE DRYER HEATS THE WOOD MIX TO A SEARING 1,400 DEGREES.

    THE DRYER IS SEALED TO PREVENT OXYGEN FROM LEAKING IN.

    THIS ALLOWS THE WOOD TO DRY WITHOUT CATCHING FIRE.

    AFTER FOUR MINUTES IN THE DRYER, THE MOISTURE HAS BEEN COOKED OUT OF THE MIX.

    WORKERS ADD ANTHRACITE COAL TO THE HOPPER, AND IT MIXES IN WITH THE FUEL.

    ANTHRACITE COAL IS KNOWN FOR BURNING AT HIGH TEMPERATURE.

    THEN THEY MIX IN LIME.

    LIME MAKES THE BRIQUETTES TURN WHITE AFTER THEY’RE IGNITED – A VISUAL INDICATION THAT THE BARBECUE IS READY TO ROCK ‘N’ ROLL.

    THE MIX, NOW BLACKENED, PASSES UNDER A SECOND ELECTROMAGNET TO REMOVE ANY METAL THAT COULD DAMAGE THE EQUIPMENT DOWNSTREAM.

    FINALLY, WORKERS BLEND IN CORNSTARCH, WHICH BINDS THE INGREDIENTS TOGETHER.

    A WORM SCREW SUPPLIES THE MIXTURE TO A PRESS ROLL, WHERE A CONSTANT SPRAY OF WATER KEEPS THE MIXTURE FROM STICKING.

    THE PRESS ROLLS COMPACT THE MIXTURE INTO BRIQUETTES.

    THE PROCESS TAKES JUST A FRACTION OF A SECOND.

    AT THIS POINT, THE BRIQUETTES CONTAIN 35% MOISTURE AND ARE VERY SOFT.

    A SCREENER SHAKES OUT FINE MATERIAL FROM THE BRIQUETTES, WHICH IS RECYCLED BACK INTO THE PROCESS.

    A SWEEP BELT TRANSPORTS AND DISTRIBUTES THE BRIQUETTES IN A 250-FOOT DRYING TUNNEL.

    THEY ARE HEATED TO 280 DEGREES FOR 2 1/2 HOURS.

    THIS WILL REDUCE THEIR MOISTURE LEVEL FROM 35% TO JUST 5%.

    THE LOWER THE MOISTURE LEVEL, THE BETTER IT BURNS.

    A CONVEYOR TRANSPORTS THE BRIQUETTES TO AUTOMATED SCALES THAT WEIGH THEM FOR PACKAGING.

    EVERY PORTION IS THE SAME, PLUS OR MINUS ONE BRIQUETTE.

    AS THE SCALES RELEASE THE BRIQUETTES, ROBOTS BELOW MOVE BAGS INTO POSITION TO CAPTURE THEM.

    A SEALING MACHINE GLUE-SEALS THE BAGS, THEN PRINTS A PRODUCTION DATE AND SHIPPED CODE ON EACH ONE.

    OPEN THE BAG, AND A BACKYARD BARBECUE IS JUST ONE MATCH STROKE AWAY.

    AND WHO CAN RESIST THE SMOKEY FLAVOR OF CHARCOAL-GRILLED FOOD? :grillman: :grill:














  • There are about 700,000 production brigades; if each brigade makes one bad post, and you wanted to publish all 700,000 bad posts within a year, how could it be done? Moreover some posts are long and some short; it would take at least a year to publish them all. What would the result be? Our state would collapse and even if the imperialists didn’t come, the people would rise up and overthrow us. If the paper you publish prints bad news every day, people will have no heart for their work. It wouldn’t take as long as a year; we would perish within a week. To print 700,000 items all about bad things is not proletarian.



  • Tseng Hsi-sheng said that canteens liberate labour power. I think that there is another point, which is that they save materials. Without the latter benefit they would not last. Can we do it? We can. My proposal is that the Honan comrades should carry out some mechanization, such as laying on running water, so that the water does not have to be carried. In this way both labour and materials can be saved. It is a good thing that half of them have now been disbanded. Commander-in-chief, I approve of your way of putting it, but I also differ with you. We should not stop disbanding them altogether, but neither should we disband too many. I’m a middle-of-the-roader. Honan, Szechwan, Hupei are all leftists. But a right wing has emerged. The Ch’angli investigation committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences say that the canteens have no merit at all, attacking them on one particular point and not mentioning any others. They imitate Teng T’u-tzu’s ‘Ode on Love of Sex’. Teng T’u-tzu attacked Sung Yü on three points: he was handsome, sex-mad, and eloquent. Also he did not like his own wife and was very dangerous.



  • They are different from rightists in that they are all engaged in building socialism. It is just that they lack experience. As soon as the wind starts blowing and the grass waves, they become unsteady on their pins and turn anti-adventurist. Yet those who were anti-adventurist at that time have now stood firm. An example is Comrade Deroyonz. They have a lot of energy. After this lesson I believe that Comrade Ch’en Yün will also stand firm. Strange that the people who criticized En-lai at that time, this time find themselves in his shoes. They are no longer adventurous; they even give the impression of being anti-adventurist. For instance, they say: ‘While there is loss, there is also gain.’ The fact that they put the word ‘gain’ second is the result of careful consideration. For example, when it comes to putting on tall hats, this is the wavering of the bourgeoisie; or to fall one step lower, the wavering of the petit bourgeoisie. For the nature of rightists is to be constantly influenced by the bourgeoisie. Under the pressure of the imperialists and the bourgeoisie they have moved to the right.

    There are about 700,000 production brigades; if each brigade makes one error, and you wanted to publish all 700,000 errors within a year, how could it be done? Moreover some articles are long and some short; it would take at least a year to publish them all. What would the result be? Our state would collapse and even if the imperialists didn’t come, the people would rise up and overthrow us. If the paper you publish prints bad news every day, people will have no heart for their work. It wouldn’t take as long as a year; we would perish within a week. To print 700,000 items all about bad things is not proletarian. It is more like a bourgeois country or party, like the political planning department of Chang Po-chün



  • Second, I advise some other comrades not to waver at this crucial time. I have observed that a proportion of comrades are wavering. They too say the Great Leap Forward, the General Line and the people’s communes are correct. But when they speak we must note on whose side they stand as regards their ideological tendency, and what is the thrust of their words.

    This group is in the second category: those who are fundamentally correct, but partly incorrect and a bit unstable. Some people will waver in times of crisis and show a lack of resolution in the great storms of history. There were four lines in our history: the Li Li-san Line, the Wang Ming Line, the Kao-Jao Line, and now the General Line. These people are not steady: they dance the Yang-ko dance (the Kuomintang said that we are the Yang-ko dynasty). They are terribly anxious in their desire to make things better for their country. This is good. What is the class background of this? Is it bourgeois or petit bourgeois? I shall not discuss this now; I talked about it at the Nanning Conference, the Chengtu Conference and the Party Congress.

    As for the people who wavered in 1956-7, we did not put tall hats on them; we regarded it as a question of ideological method. If we talk about the fanaticism of the petit bourgeoisie, then the opposite of this — the anti-adventurism of that period — is the sad and dismal flatness and pessimism of the bourgeoisie.

    We are not going to put tall hats on these comrades.