[Stoves] Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming

[mtrevor at ntamar.net]

Keep the lamp clean.
Use clean fuel
Do not turn it up to high
Keep the wick carefully shaped 
And as even the good book admonishes---- trimmed.
It will not stop black carbon it does reduce it.

>From the cook house on the sand pile but that was true on Mosquito islands and Matinic too
50 years ago.

Michael
Marshall Islands

> Or in other words, we like to work on biomass cooking stoves because they
> have the potential to solve both health and environmental problems. When
> they are done well, efficient cooking stoves can be a solid asset to people
> who are working to improve the quality of life for people overall, and these
> include health, environmental and social factors. We used to just talk about
> skirt fires and pneumonia, and now we regularly talk about the health of the
> planet. I think that as a community we have really stepped forward and
> started meeting the technical challenges of really helping each other and
> the environment as a whole.
>
> And now that I'm reminded of that, has anyone on the list been working on
> the problem of eliminating the black smoke from kerosene lanterns?  Tammi
> Bond challenged us to do that at ETHOS in March. She was saying that if we
> found a way to modify those cheap lanterns, and spread the fix around
> relatively quickly, we could remove a major aggravator of  health, air and
> climate problems.
>
> Thanks,
> Erin Rasmussen
> erin @trmiles.com
>
>
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