[Stoves] Re Thoughts in a cold shower

[Paal wendelbo]

Dear Tom and Jonathan

        Good observations, and important for 1000  of tinsmiths around the world. Thats the way they have practiced making holes in their stoves for 100 years. My observations are.that the local tinsmiths have the knowledge and the tools for producing light TLUD stoves; the only thing they need is a template of good TLUD stove and customers.

        The customers will be there when appropriate low cost fuel for the TLUD's is available. And low cost available fuel will be there when   appropriate mobile equipment run by local entrepreneurs is operating in the area.  

         The local entrepreneurs will be the to day operating charcoal business who has the infrastructure intact. They just need to change from charcoal to another appropriate bio fuel. 

          The appropriate bio fuel will be coming from energy forestry, sawmills, agriculture and milling waste, grass, straw, reeds and other types of combustible biomass collected or grown by the local population. By establishment of this system you will solve a lot of problems and you will obtain:

         §    Maintain the local environment and   local community activities

         ·       Improve and conserve the environment outside and inside

         §    Improved environment by clean combustion 

            ·     Improve the health-situation 

   §   Create a lot of new income generating   activities 

            ·     More and cheaper household energy by lower production- and transport costs,

    We do have everything needed to solve the household energy problems for developing countries around the world and partly the poverty:.

     ·     The need of changes is there

         The TLUD stoves is there

           ·      The local tinsmiths for production are there

     ·      The combustible biomass are there 

     ·      The local populations for bio fuel production and collection are there

     ·      The local charcoal infrastructure is there. 

       What is missing : only? 

·         Pilot projects

·         Fundings

·         And may be a starter.

Or will it be better with mass-production of cheap stoves somewhere abroad   and huge centralized pellets production  with its transport

Wirh regards Paal W

 
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