[Stoves] RE : Subject: What is your best charcoal stove?

[vetle cappelen]

>Commercially and ecologically speaking, it does make sense to sell charcoal-efficient stoves<

Commercially speaking, I think there are wide range of fuel efficient charcoal stoves around the world that are great in all kind of ways, except that it only can be used with charcoal as fuel (maybe briquettes!?). So yes if you want to produce and sell cheap fuel efficient charcoal stoves, there are lots of different types and competitors. But will it reduce the demand of charcoal enough to lower the fuel prices?

I know charcoal are used widely but with Haiti as an example where people, still using fuel efficient stoves, don´t have afford to use charcoal as fuel. Will the stoves be less or unused?. Another example (not with charcoal stoves) I experienced when I visited Indonesia last winter. Housholdings using gas as fuel, went out to the forest and collect wood and started "fires" as in the old days to make their meals when the gas tank in the end of the month was empty and refilling gas was to expensive.

My point is:
It´s not all about the stoves. Alternative and what kind fuel are maybe more important than the actually stove. 

Is it the cost of stove production prices between charcoal stove and wood stoves that make you want to search for the best charcoal stove?
Will there not be any advantages for producing wood/pellet stoves over time?

Vetle Cappelen

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:12:02 +0100
From: xvr.brandao at gmail.com
To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
Subject: [Stoves] RE : Subject:  What is your best charcoal stove?

Actually, charcoal is widely used in Benin, especially in the urban region where I live (Cotonou). A lot of people working on domestic energies agree it is likely to be the case in the coming decades.
I think this situation is similar in many African countries, and in developing countries in general.

Commercially and ecologically speaking, it does make sense to sell charcoal-efficient stoves. The goal would be to diminish consumption to more than 40% compared to the traditionnal "Malgache" stove.

Xavier Brandao



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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:36:01 +0100

From: vetle cappelen <vetle_cappelen at hotmail.com>

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Subject: Re: [Stoves] What is your best charcoal stove?

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Hallo!







Any specific reason why to start a "charcoal" stove production company?



I?m not an expert so pls correct me if i?m wrong but I?m thinking of:



Loss of energy by producing charcoal!?

increase of charcoal prices!?

The CO2 emissions!?



Br

Vetle Cappelen

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