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

Agnes Klingshirn aklingshi at t-online.de
Sat Jun 2 01:31:29 CDT 2012


Dear Bryden and Nathan,

 

from your short summary the article sounds very interesting and if possible,
I would like to read the whole document as a pdf. Thanks for making it
available for the list.

 

Best greetings, Agnes Klingshirn

 

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

 

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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