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

[Otto Formo]

Dear Crispin,
thanks for the links to the mosquito repellent plants and factsheets.

Otto

> From: Crispin Pemberton-Pigott [crispinpigott at gmail.com]
> Sent: 2010-10-14 12:38:46 MEST
> To: 'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves' [stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org]
> Subject: Re: [Stoves] MUST <WOOD OR> CHARCOAL BE A CAUSE FOR CONCERN?
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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