<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Amigo, <div><br></div><div>Thanks, pero ... the point is that we are training Chapinas to do this --to privode the initial training and initial supply of the equipment for you guys in neighboring nations there. Give us a few more months and then we will all be learning from the producers just as we do everywhere else we have been. <div><br></div><div>Lets meet when I get there, between the 17th and 27th of May. preferrably at either beginning or very end of the trip Will be travelling all over the nation in-between. </div><div><br></div><div>Richard Stanley</div><div><a href="http://www.legacyfound.org">www.legacyfound.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>========</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">
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<div style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class="hr" contenteditable="false" readonly="true"></div><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</span></b> Richard Stanley <<a href="mailto:rstanley@legacyfound.org">rstanley@legacyfound.org</a>><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> Cocinas y Estufas Mejoradas <<a href="mailto:estufas@lists.bioenergylists.org">estufas@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>> <br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</span></b> Pena Gustavo <<a href="mailto:inv.falcon@yahoo.com">inv.falcon@yahoo.com</a>>; Juan Gutierrez Jr <<a href="mailto:mifogonleon@yahoo.com">mifogonleon@yahoo.com</a>>; Don Steely <<a href="mailto:donsteely@gmail.com">donsteely@gmail.com</a>>; Brenda Doroski <<a href="mailto:doroski.brenda@epamail.epa.gov">doroski.brenda@epamail.epa.gov</a>>; PCIA <<a href="mailto:pcia@epa.gov">pcia@epa.gov</a>>; Anibal Murcia <<a href="mailto:anibalmurciacopan@yahoo.com">anibalmurciacopan@yahoo.com</a>>; Gerry <<a href="mailto:gerry@jodyandgerry.com">gerry@jodyandgerry.com</a>>; Peter Schild <<a href="mailto:peter.schild.mittelamerika@googlemail.com">peter.schild.mittelamerika@googlemail.com</a>>;
Stanley Joyce <<a href="mailto:stanleyj@legacyfound.org">stanleyj@legacyfound.org</a>> <br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:49 PM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Estufas] the new Ecko-Plancha<br></font></div><br>Hola Gustavo a et al, <br><br>Just a heads up on our briquette training:<br><br>We have just completed our training of producers in Guatemala about a month ago, up in Tecpan, with Fundacion Progressar. Reports coming in from the five different teams --from five different localities)--as they now face the realities in their local communities with that new thing called eco leña, unaided by anyone--, are good but highly varied at this stage. There are lots of ongoing exchanges between us for technical corrections/ insights, adaptations and local insights about resrouces and applications new to us as well. Some of these will fail, others will take off: Its a bit too soon to tell. (we typically bat 60
to 70% success) <br><br>This suggests that soon, there will be a source of briquette fuel in various communities throughout Guatemala.<br><br>I'm heading back down near the end of May for a two week site visits and tech discussions with various talliers on some new material processing and press technologies and or adaptations of existing ones) as tailored to local needs, resources and skill sets. I am not expecting to find successful--meaning stand alone, micro-entrepreneur based production capacity--- yet. <br><br>Thats a a few months off. <br><br>We will be returning again in October / November for training of trainers from amongst this initial producer teams, then we can safely open the floodgates to anyone's request for training of their own groups. The briquette product can easily be tailored in both blend and diameter (from 2" through 6" ) and height (from thin wafers of 1" height to 8" + log lengths using many of the
same presses which are now in early stages of local production in Guatemala. <br><br>Let us know if this fuel source will be if interest to you so we can start discussions about its testing and adaptation to your own stove designs. Gustavo perhpas this time we can meet ! <br><br>Richard Stanley,<br><a href="http://www.legacyfound.org/" target="_blank">www.legacyfound.org</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Estufas mailing list<br><br>para enviar un mensaje a la lista de discusión, utilice el email address<br><a href="mailto:Estufas@lists.bioenergylists.org" ymailto="mailto:Estufas@lists.bioenergylists.org">Estufas@lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>para DARSE DE BAJA o cambiar sus ajustes de la lista de discusión utiliza el Web page<br><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/estufas_lists.bioenergylists.org">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/estufas_lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><a href="http://www.bioenergylists.org/es">http://www.bioenergylists.org/es</a><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>