[Stoves] Hilary Clinton announcing $50 million for cleaner cookstoves

[paal wendelbo]

Lloyd

You are right. One can not separate stoves and fuel, it has to be seen in one though stoves are a one time investment and fuel is an every day running costs. Another thing is that a good stove can be burning clean with one type of fuel and give smoke soot and pitch with an other type of fuel. We know how to make clean burning stoves but we don't know enough about how to produce biofuel to a price poor people can afford to buy.. 

 

It is very important how this task will be handled in the future, not to make more problems than we already have for poor people on the household energy-sector.  We have to take the increasing unemployment into consideration, traditionally local tinsmiths have produced light stoves, and mass-produced cheap stoves will spoil that market and probably they will not fit to the natural available fuel. The charcoal business has the infrastructure intact, and for them it is just to change from charcoal to some alternative type of fuel. Everybody can produce biofuel, either collecting or by growing, but some kind of treatment is necessary for clean burning stoves. There are a lot of possibilities like energy-forestry and energy agriculture and handled the right way, it could really create new jobs and reduce poverty, improve the environment and health. 

With regards Paal Wendelbo paaw at onlone.no 
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