[Stoves] MUST <WOOD OR> CHARCOAL BE A CAUSE FOR CONCERN?

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Richard 

Isn't Tanzania one of the stomping grounds of the people producing
pyrethroids (from a small bush)
http://gomestic.com/gardening/five-plants-that-repel-mosquitoes/
and
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/pesticides/factsheets/Synthetic%20Pyrethroid
s.pdf

It seems from the latter that pyrethroids have the potential for many other
unintended consequences. No doubt someone will find in drying briquettes
something to regulate.

I fully appreciate the need to make low density briquettes from available
bio-wastes - I even manufacture a small machine for this purpose but I think
it is a great idea.  But consider the implications for the objects of
Cecil's Soc-Anth doctoral research in Motto Grosso.  It is also a little
humorous to think of him telling people surrounded by fuel to start
collecting and processing it for their own benefit. They would rather go
digging for azure-blue honey.

Could you not add a little chopped pyrethroid bush to the briquette so when
it burns it kills mozzies? It only takes a pinch and the rooms are well
ventilated already. Perhaps there is a happy medium.

Regards
Crispin