[Stoves] Energy supply and use in a rural West African village

[CEDESOL Foundation]

Hi Mark,
I would like a copy of the article. Tks
David

On 6/1/12, Bryden, Kenneth [M E] <kmbryden at iastate.edu> wrote:
> All,
>
> Nathan Johnson and I would like to bring to your attention our recently
> published research on energy supply and use in a rural West African village.
> If you have free access to Energy (an Elsevier journal) the journal article
> can be downloaded from ENERGY  at
> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544212003088 .
>
> If you do not have free access to Energy, I would be happy to email you a
> pdf of the article (I cannot post the article due to copyright issues but I
> can provide it to you by email). The article is 590 KB in size.
>
> The abstract of the article is
>
> "Over three billion people live in the rural areas of low- and middle-income
> countries. Often rural households have many unmet energy needs, including
> cooking, lighting, heating, transportation, and telecommunication. Designing
> solutions to meet these needs requires an understanding of the human,
> natural, and engineered systems that drive village energy dynamics. This
> paper presents the results of a novel study of energy supply and use over a
> one year period in an isolated rural village of 770 people in Mali.
> Quantitative data and narrative descriptions from this study portray village
> energy supply and use. Annual village energy use is 6000 MJ per cap per yr.
> Domestic energy needs account for 93% of village energy use. Wood is the
> primary energy source and provides 94% of the village energy supply.
> Approximately 98% of the wood is used for domestic consumption. The uses of
> wood in the home are cooking (52.2%), heating water (22.2%), space heating
> (19.1%), and other activities (6.5%). This paper also reports variations in
> energy usage over the period of a year for a broad range of domestic,
> artisan, transport, and public energy uses."
>
> Please let me know if you would like a copy of the article. Also let me know
> if you have any questions or comments on the article.
>
> Best regards
> Mark
>
>

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