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

Chris Hollonds chris.hollonds at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 18:57:06 CDT 2012


Hi Mark,
I am in Timor Leste and have just started mass producing good stoves for
people here. I am interested in your research and would appreciate a copy.
Chris Hollonds

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:06 AM, 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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Chris Hollonds

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