[Stoves] (stoves) Haitian cooking

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Andrew

>So what are the comparative cooking efficiencies for the char compared with
whole wood?

That is the critical question I have been trying to get debated. If the
charcoal is made 'properly' and the level of advancement in stove technology
is equal, there is little between them on a system efficiency basis, save
this: you can produce power with very dry wood in a charcoal kiln during
production. And, (it is a big 'and') the pots are much cleaner with
charcoal. 

As the users are preferring to have clean pots over lower costs now, imagine
the uptake if the cost came down with a much more efficient stove?

The likely end result would be a charcoal burning fan stove with packaged
charcoal in pelletized form so it was totally predictable. The charcoal
producers would be in the power generation business (or greenhouses in a
cold country).

Nothing gets off the farm in a raw state.  To be a farmer will be to be
rich! Now there's a different future.

Regards
Crispin