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

[Lloyd Helferty]

  Richard,

   Well, now we are actively seeking out avenues of funding for these 
types of projects.
Our partner in Germany, who also works with a foundation, is ready to 
undertake a stove project in Lesotho, but the hurdle is, as always, the 
same problem that always seems to crop up, which is: guess what?
: Financing. :
   The announcement by Clinton about the "Global Alliance" was exciting 
to learn and we have contacted them (no reply yet). Our aim is to 
demonstrate that by integrating Biochar-to-soils into the "Clean 
Cookstoves" paradigm that we can achieve an ROI that is "greater than 
the sum of the parts".
I.e. in terms of /*total "biomass (i.e. carbon) savings"*/ -- we are 
looking at it from the perspective of not only "*fuel use*" but also 
"*fuel re-growth*". Let's say that even if a gasifier (i.e. 
"biochar-producing") stove does require 20% more fuel, if it produces a 
Biochar product that, if integrated into a composting and bio-waste 
recycling system, ultimately produces 30% more biomass from the 
surrounding environment because of the regeneration of soils and 
improved agriculture and forest regeneration, then this stove type 
[biochar-producing gasifier]/* can be justified*/.
   This is 'big picture' thinking that we are trying to apply, but we do 
want to prove that it will work (or not) in a real-world setting.

  Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist

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On 9/23/2010 10:48 AM, Richard Stanley wrote:
> Lloyd & Crispin,
>
> Thanks for the contacts...
>
> Will look into them.
>
> Lloyd, we have never funded such parties, unless by funded you mean 
> offered ideas or consulted with but that was as mutual an exchange as 
> is experienced on this list serve..
>
> Aluta continua,
> Richard
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