[Stoves] wet fuel and smart fuel

[Richard Stanley]

Greetings Christa,
Lots of reallybgood insights you and others are offering about wet fuel. Thanks. One thing about field extension though is it not possible to tie the extension process with the selling / training process --- in a way that grows with stove use? Ie., the buyers are incentivised to act as demonstrators to promote the stoves to others through some sort of discount scheme on future stoves. 
There's nothing new about this in the commercial product -selling world. In the development arena however, we all too often seem to feel we have to do what simple market incentives can often (at least in non humanitarian emergency relief situations), accomplish far better.
How is the user incentivised to act as promoter in your project?

Richard
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On Feb 10, 2012, at 4:08, CHRISTA ROTH <stoves at foodandfuel.info> wrote:

> Richard, well put, as usual. yet education of users requires a) presence in the field, b) (staff) time and money. in our programmes in Malawi the 'software' (logistical costs for user training in rural areas) by far exceeded the 'hardware' costs of stoves.
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> Am 09.02.2012 um 19:50 schrieb Richard Stanley:
> 
>> Greetings Krista et al.,
>> 
>> ... but what about drying the fuel alongside the stove beforehand ?
>> 
>> Just saw wet (25- 30% moisture)  fuel kill the fire of a recent demo here in Guatemala at the PCIA conference. Then same day nearly same time same location, noticed the same stove with same wood at much lower loisture content start up and run very well.
>> 
>> Its the same with briquettes, only that we hang them off the side of the stove with whatever is handy.
>> 
>> And ( here's the preachy part) dont forget abou the potential of blending in  agro residues for desired aromatic effects:  Mosquitoes  and flies? blend in euclayptus or lemon grass:
>> Congestion in the  chest ? add in the neem leaf or spearment or clove leaves.
>> thats only the tip of a very large opportunity iceberg folks and each of you know one heck of a lot more about the options and resources in your one experience that I ever could:
>> 
>> What I do know is that you needs to heat the bqs for a few minutes to say ½ an hour and get up to 150 - 175 degrees (F).
>> I know that if you do this you will  get:
>> 1) No smoke;  pure aroma-- and
>> 2) a bone dry fuel ready to ignite up insertion with little if any smoke at all.
>> And yes charcoal lovers, you can add in crumbs and dust the 10 to 20% of your product that winds up as dust on the floor of the sellers stall --and still get the aroma plus the desired charcoal style heat.
>> 
>> Design your own fuel,  attache it exclusively to your own organisation like we are taugh to do int eh west: And get rich
>> ...or you can share it out and feel good
>> Or you can get smart or detail it in a small phamplet and sell it online and get both.
>> 
>> Win Win-- amigos; try it out sell it locally then teach us globally.
>> 
>> Richard Stanley
>> www.legacyfound.org
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