[Stoves] re Charcoal in Ganbia

Alex English english at kingston.net
Fri Aug 12 18:10:58 CDT 2011


Hi Crispin,
In the context of your statement below, what of "special" about Rwanda?

Alex

On 8/12/2011 11:47 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:


>
> If the special conditions needed to turn cooking char into soil
> amendment exist, it may be in Rwanda. Nat is implementing an experiment
> there on a large enough scale that it can be viewed as a test bed, an
> experiment. If it succeeds or fails does /not/ mean it is automatically
> possible to do it somewhere else. There are many factors at play in
> something that complex. I hope it works because in theory it is a great
> plan. I also hope that it is not dependent on ‘carbon trading’ (CO_2
> offset selling) to be economically viable because there are many
> unintended consequences that emerge from subsidised behaviours.




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