[Stoves] FW: Where is the Stove Comparison

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott crispinpigott at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 14:00:03 CDT 2011


Here they are.
Crispin
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Crispin,

Were there files attached to your response?  I did not see any.

Thanks,
Francesco

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <
crispinpigott at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Jan
>
> Thanks for the reminder. It is not a large file.
> It is a spreadsheet and a PDF with explanations and caveats. There 
> could always be more. Testing stoves is a messy business.
>
> So, don't read too much into any particular test, though they were 
> chose to be representative of the technologies involved. It is 
> expected that during the next three years we will make improvements on 
> all of them. The ignition of the stoves involves 'technique' and as 
> those skills are developed and transferred, we expect even better
performance.
>
> You will see that two classes of stove, TLUD and Crossdraft, are 
> consistently performing well no makes who makes it. I have not been 
> making downdraft stoves for this market but will do so from July. That 
> will bring in another strong contender into the 99% reduction class.
>
> It is not clearly stated that the stoves are developed for a 
> particular fuel (lignite from Nalaikh Mine). They can be adapted to 
> any fuel as far as I understand things. We are going to try goat dung 
> during the coming year.
> Dung burners: don't forget we are going to work out something for 
> Central Asia!
>
> Regards
> Crispin
>
>
> +++++++++
>
> Crispin,
>
> During March you said that a stove comparison of 17 different stoves 
> falling into one of the following four stove types was about to be
> issued:
>
> Traditional bottom lit updraft
> Crossdraft
> Top lit updraft
> Bottom lit downdraft
>
> I haven't seen it anywhere.  Can you tell me when it is going to be 
> issued, or, if it already has been, where I can find it?
>
> Jan Bianchi
>


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