[Stoves] re Charcoal in Gambia/ WorldStove char in Rwanda

[Alex English]

Hi Fireside (name?)

No its not a sign.

Aside from the inappropriate preposition/typo/brain burp in my question, 
the intention is benign curiosity. Perhaps it should be addressed to Nat 
at WorldStove.

I once lived in Uganda and traveled to Rwanda. I understand that what 
works in one place may not in another.

Rwanda has its own special political, cultural, agricultural, climate 
characteristics and I am wondering why Crispin thinks the stove-char for 
soil proposal might work there.

Is it the high rural population density and land scarcity?
Has their shocking history of mass violence made them more open to 
trying new ideas?
Are the soils acidic?
Is it the lack of woody biomass fuels?
Other reasons?

I like measuring things too :), but this is more of a qualitative query.

Regards

Alex (a friend of Crispin)





On 8/12/2011 7:37 PM, Fireside Hearth wrote:
> Ok.....the dumb guy again, with the same question. Is this a sign of
> dissension among the troops? or are things getting accomplished that I
> can not see? Sorry but as a business owner not relying on public
> funding, I just fear that maybe my wife was right about the measuring thing.
>
> Were all in this together, lets keep it clean!
>
>  > Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:10:58 -0400
>  > From: english at kingston.net
>  > To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
>  > Subject: Re: [Stoves] re Charcoal in Ganbia
>  >
>  > 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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