[Stoves] Stoves Digest, Vol 31, Issue 1 Topic 2
Alex English
english at kingston.net
Sun Mar 3 09:00:49 CST 2013
Cecil,
In the absence of an official personal response,
"Unless otherwise stated, numerical ranges given in square brackets in
this report indicate 90% uncertainty intervals (i.e. there is an
estimated 5% likelihood that the value could be above the range given in
square brackets and 5% likelihood that the value could be below that
range). Uncertainty intervals are not necessarily symmetric around the
best estimate"
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr.pdf
The pretty global maps, whether they are generated by satellite or model
data seldom include error bars or high and low alternates. They are a
picture worth a thousand words and we can't tell if any are misspelled.
If you would like some more;
http://www.pnas.org/content/100/11/6319.full.pdf
Alex
On 03/03/2013 3:24 AM, Cecil Cook wrote:
> Dear stove scientists and climatologists,
>
> I accessed this article in its pre-publication form at no cost from
> the following URL
>
> <ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/publications/.../lam_est_2012.pd
> <http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/publications/.../lam_est_2012.pd>.>
>
> The article is hard going for me, let's say a bit opaque, as a person
> who last studied physics in high school.
>
> I am once again reminded of the risks of doing 'hard' science where
> there are so many unknowns and so many assumptions have to be made by
> researchers to construct a model about the relationship between the
> black carbon emitted by the wicks of illuminating lamps and something
> as gigantic as the average temperature balance of the planet.
>
> Unlike the cultural and social sciences (I am an anthropologist),
> where informants can and eventually do talk back and rebuke
> researchers when they stray too far off course and begin
> making ridiculous claims about the culturally and socially constructed
> worlds that particular informants are reputed to inhabit, Black Carbon
> does not have its own consciousness and voice. Therefore BC cannot
> censure errant climatologists when they deviate too much from reality
> when they as researchers - who are honestly trying to understand the
> role of BC in the climate system - fall victim to their own mad hatter
> assumptions about a devilish complex planetary climate system.
>
> Unfortunately, the climate system does not have the consciousness,
> agency and voice in spite of what Kirkpatrick Sale says about Gaia.
> The climate scientists presume to speaks for Gaia and when they
> succumbs to the temptation of playing science politics with the world
> climate system they run the risk of losing their way in the forest of
> his self created forest of symbolic representations of the how the
> planet's energy balances are maintained, and how such a 'fragile'
> system is possibly threatened by the careless actions of humans who
> create too much BC to light up the night.
>
> We know what a world of trouble Michael Mann, Lord Stern and their
> colleagues have gotten themselves into by hyper-interpreting their
> climate data. In the end their assumptions overpowered their common
> sense and perhaps their honesty and they permitted the politics of
> science to determine the assumptions they made about man's role in
> destabilizing and forcing the climate of the planet toward a
> hotter equilibrium. Hotter than what? Hotter than the climate present
> we have known for the last hundred years?
>
> I see there are 90% uncertainty ranges for all of the figures used in
> this article. I do not feel very confident with such a big range of
> variation. How would climatologists like it if I said that if a
> particular stove using group is exposed to a particular improved or
> advanced cookstove that 50% of the households in this stove using
> group will buy that stove within the next 12 months with +/- 90%
> uncertainty. If there were 1 million household in this group,that
> statistic indicates that 500 000 households can be expected to buy the
> better stove on offer with a range of variation around predicted 500
> 000 households of a low of 50 000 households and and high of 950 000
> households. Maybe I have misunderstood what 90% uncertainty bounds
> mean. Have I? I do not know the usefulness of numbers that vary from
> 50 000 households and 950 000 households. That is not much of a
> prediction in my part of the scientific enterprise. What is being
> measured? Whose uncertainty is at issue here? Is it a measure of the
> ambiguity of the researcher or the methods used for measuring BC and
> its forcing effects, or what?
>
> Lastly, I would like a climatologist who is well informed about the
> role of BC to explain why there is not more BC over South Africa. Is
> it possible to differentiate the signals of BC from illuminating
> kerosene from the BC signals emitted from the much greater combustion
> of kerosene in 'Panda' stoves and space heaters which have round wicks
> that are about 30 cm in circumference and burn kerosene at a rate of 1
> liter a a day for cooking and space heating during the cold months (or
> up to 30 liters a month at $1.20 a day or $36 a month). The use of
> these Panda heaters, although outlawed by the SA Bureau of Standards,
> is still prevalent because the stoves are so cheap (under $10) and
> they can space heat and cook at the same time. The collection of
> firewood has become a class indicator so women in most townships do
> not like being seen carrying head loads of firewood.
>
> I would estimate there are 10 to 15 million kerosene stoves in the
> townships and villages of SA each of which uses a minimum of 30 liters
> of kerosene a month during the winter and perhaps 15 liters a day
> during the summer months for cooking. Should not the burning of 30
> litres a month x - being conservative let us say - 7 500 000 kerosene
> burning stoves in South Africa - or 225 000 000 litres a month of
> kerosene. Would not the burning of 225 million liters of kerosene a
> month in South Africa produce a significant Black Carbon signal in the
> atmosphere over our fair country?
>
> This is not my field so I am ignorant enough not to be embarrassed by
> my ignorance.
>
> In search of answers,
>
> Cecil Cook
> Sundance Farm
> South Africa
>
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Dean Still <deankstill at gmail.com
> <mailto:deankstill at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Otto,
>
> Yes, I'll be in Cambodia.
>
> I think that informing users of kerosene lamps how they can get
> rid of the soot could be helpful just as making other options
> available is a great idea.
>
> Best,
>
> Dean
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Otto Formo
> <terra-matricula at hotmail.com <mailto:terra-matricula at hotmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Dean and Crispin,
>
> But you need to buy Kerosene, which costs close to two US $
> per litre in Zambia, and are still fossil fuel.
>
> We prefer waste biomass as fuel, for free and available
> everywhere.
>
> Will you be attending the conference in Cambodia?
>
> Otto
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:37:04 -0800om: deankstill at gmail.com
> <mailto:deankstill at gmail.com>
> To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
> <mailto:stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> Subject: Re: [Stoves] Stoves Digest, Vol 31, Issue 1 Topic 2
>
> http://www.aprovecho.org/lab/pubs/video-gallery
>
> Hi Crispin,
>
> I agree that blaming kerosene instead of the lamp for making
> soot misses the opportunity to fix the problem not by
> switching fuels but by just fixing the lamp. Kelley Grabow and
> Ed Wilson did dome preliminary investigation shown in a video
> above that seemed to indicate that fixing the lamp might be
> pretty simple.
>
> Best,
>
> Dean
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Geoff Thomas <wind at iig.com.au
> <mailto:wind at iig.com.au>> wrote:
>
> Hi Crispin that link required some un-related password to
> do with Microsoft.
> >
> <https://mail.chemonics.net/exchange/emdelate/Drafts/RE:%20[Stoves]%20Gas%20Bottle%20TLUDs.EML/1_multipart/image001.jpg
> <https://mail.chemonics.net/exchange/emdelate/Drafts/RE:%20%5bStoves%5d%20Gas%20Bottle%20TLUDs.EML/1_multipart/image001.jpg>>
> No way it could be viewed.
> Cheers,
> Geoff.
>
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:07:23 -0500
> > From: "Crispin Pemberton-Pigott"
> <crispinpigott at gmail.com <mailto:crispinpigott at gmail.com>>
> > To: "'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves'"
> > <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
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> > Subject: Re: [Stoves] Skoll article on HAP research
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> > Dear Christina
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the pointer.
> >
> >
> >
> > For the benefit of readers I would like to raise one
> point about the emissions and the fuel.
> >
> >
> >
> > ?Getting Good Data Could be Easy
> >
> > ?If solid fuel cook stoves and kerosene lanterns are
> used in the same households, then getting the answers we
> need may be straightforward and low cost. While in the
> field, mothers being surveyed about their use of solid
> fuel cook stoves could also be asked a few questions about
> their use of kerosene for lighting. Some additional field
> observations could be recorded. Existing resources
> allocated to studies planned for cook stoves research
> could be very easily leveraged to quickly and
> inexpensively begin to build a body of knowledge about the
> effects of kerosene lighting.?
> >
> > The article also says that ?A recent Environmental
> Science and Technology <mailto:http
> <mailto:http>://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es302697h
> <http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es302697h>> article
> reports that as much as 10% of kerosene smoke is pure
> black carbon (soot) ? 20 times higher than previous
> studies had found.?
> >
> >
> >
> > The black carbon content of kerosene smoke is highly
> variable. It depends on what lantern is used and the power
> setting. The article speaks as if the emissions are
> created by the fuel and that worries me. This is an old
> fashioned view. It is like saying that ?wood is a smoky
> fuel?. It depends on the stove that is burning the wood,
> and how, doesn?t it? There is no doubt that one lantern
> may create 20 times as much black carbon particles as
> another lantern, but this tells us nothing about the fuel,
> it tells us about the lanterns.
> >
> >
> >
> > One alternative to a smoky kerosene lantern is a clean
> burning kerosene lantern.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Crispin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> > From: Stoves
> [mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org
> <mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org>] On
> Behalf Of Christina Espinosa
> > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:50 PM
> > To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
> > Subject: [Stoves] Skoll article on HAP research
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is an article about stoves and kerosene you all
> might find of interest:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> https://skollworldforum.org/2013/02/27/where-theres-smoke-theres-fire-a-call-to-action-for-better-indoor-air-pollution-research/
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:26:20 -0500
> > From: "Elisha Moore-Delate" <emdelate at chemonics.com
> <mailto:emdelate at chemonics.com>>
> > To: "Discussion of biomass cooking stoves"
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> > Subject: Re: [Stoves] Gas Bottle TLUDs
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> > Thanks Crispin. Appreciate the lovely photos and info.
> >
> > ________________________________
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> > From: Stoves on behalf of Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
> > Sent: Tue 2/26/2013 11:26 PM
> > To: 'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves'
> > Subject: Re: [Stoves] Gas Bottle TLUDs
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear Elisha
> >
> >
> >
> > What a great idea - so many harmonies. In Mozambique
> old gas bottles are widely used as charcoal cooking pots,
> cut lengthwise from tip to bottom, after the valve has
> been removed.
> >
> >
> >
> > They last a really long time.
> >
> >
> >
> > Here are two types, one with the cylinder used
> vertically, one horizontally.
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> <https://mail.chemonics.net/exchange/emdelate/Drafts/RE:%20[Stoves]%20Gas%20Bottle%20TLUDs.EML/1_multipart/image001.jpg
> <https://mail.chemonics.net/exchange/emdelate/Drafts/RE:%20%5bStoves%5d%20Gas%20Bottle%20TLUDs.EML/1_multipart/image001.jpg>>
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> > Baseline charcoal stoves in Maputo, Mozambique
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> > Regards
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> > Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:50:00 +0530
> > From: nari phaltan <nariphaltan at gmail.com
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> > This might be of interest to the stovers that kerosene
> can be made into a
> > very clean burning fuel just like LPG.
> > http://www.cseindia.org/userfiles/Lantern%20that%20cooks.pdf
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Anil
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Christina Espinosa <
> > c_espinosa1 at u.pacific.edu
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> >
> >> Here is an article about stoves and kerosene you all
> might find of
> >> interest:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://skollworldforum.org/2013/02/27/where-theres-smoke-theres-fire-a-call-to-action-for-better-indoor-air-pollution-research/
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> > From: Lloyd Helferty <lhelferty at sympatico.ca
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> > Subject: [Stoves] Fwd: Re: [Sfpnotices] Green Energy
> Solves Dual
> > Crises of Poverty and Climate
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> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [Sfpnotices] Green Energy Solves Dual
> Crises of Poverty
> > and Climate
> > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:23:44 -0500
> > From: Robert Korol
> > To: Sfp Notices-list" <sfpnotices at physics.utoronto.ca
> <mailto:sfpnotices at physics.utoronto.ca>>
> >
> >
> >
> > Carla - thank goodness we are getting the power houses
> of our economic engines like the*World Bank* on side with
> respect to green energy.
> > Maybe there is hope for the world after all!
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:42:37 -0500
> > "Carla"<carla.wong at utoronto.ca
> <mailto:carla.wong at utoronto.ca>> wrote:
> >> Source:
> >>
> >>
> http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/green-energy-solves-dual-crises-of-poverty-and-climate/
> >>
> >>
> >> Green Energy Solves Dual Crises of Poverty and Climate
> >>
> >> By Stephen Leahy
> >>
> >>
> >> UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 25 2013 (IPS) - Green energy is
> the only way to bring
> >> billions of people out of energy poverty and prevent a
> climate disaster, a
> >> new study reveals.
> >>
> >> Conservative institutions like the World Bank, the
> International Energy
> >> Agency and accounting giant Price Waterhouse Coopers
> (PwC) all warn humanity
> >> is on a path to climate catastrophe unless fossil fuel
> energy is replaced by
> >> green energy.
> >>
> >> The U.N.'s/*Sustainable Energy for All*/ initiative
> intends to bring universal
> >> access to modern energy, doubling the share of
> renewable energy globally,
> >> and doubling the rate of improvement in energy
> efficiency by 2030.
> >>
> >> Poverty eradication, sustainable development and the
> transition away from
> >> fossil fuel energy go hand in hand.
> >>
> >> If those targets are met and similar efforts undertaken
> to*reduce
> >> deforestation*, then climate disaster can be avoided,
> said Joeri Rogelj of
> >> the<http://www.iac.ethz.ch/> Institute for
> Atmospheric and Climate Science
> >> in Zurich who headed the analysis published Sunday in
> the journal
> >> <http://www.nature.com/nclimate/index.html> Nature
> Climate Change.
> >>
> >> "Poverty eradication, sustainable development and the
> transition away from
> >> fossil fuel energy go hand in hand," Rogelj told IPS.
> >>
> >> The U.N.<http://www.sustainableenergyforall.org/>
> Sustainable Energy for
> >> All (SE4All) initiative is ambitious, but brings a
> wide range of benefits
> >> including improvements in health, less air pollution
> and makes the
> >> all-important break from increasing fossil fuel energy
> use. The analysis
> >> shows the costs of SE4All is far less than the public
> subsidies the fossil
> >> fuel industry currently receives, he said.
> >>
> >> Nearly three billion people still use fire for cooking
> and heating. Of
> >> those, some 1.5 billion people have no access to
> electricity. For a billion
> >> more, their only access is to sporadic and unreliable
> electricity networks.
> >> Indoor air pollution from burning dung, charcoal, and
> wood for heating and
> >> cooking leads to nearly two million premature deaths of
> women and children
> >> every year, more than all the deaths from malaria and
> tuberculosis.
> >>
> >> Dirty fossil fuel energy is also a major health hazard
> in industrial
> >> countries, responsible for 50,000 to 100,000 premature
> deaths and 400
> >> billion dollars in health costs a year in the U.S.
> alone, said Mark Jacobson
> >> an energy expert at Stanford University in California.
> >>
> >> "In the European Union, it is 350,000 premature deaths
> a year," Jacobson
> >> told IPS.
> >>
> >> SE4All was first announced in 2009. "Energy interacts
> with all of the
> >> development challenges we face," Kandeh Yumkella,
> director-general of the
> >> United Nations Industrial Development Organisation
> >>
> <http://www.ipsnews.net/2009/06/development-green-energy-for-all-by-2030/>
> >> told IPS at the launch.
> >>
> >> Energy experts calculate that decentralised, off-grid
> technologies like
> >> wind, solar, geothermal and micro-hydro energy
> generation are the fastest
> >> and most cost effective solutions. Extending current
> electrical grids only
> >> makes economic sense to meet 15-20 percent of the need
> due to the high
> >> costs.
> >>
> >> SE4All is well under way now, with more than 50
> developing countries working
> >> on national plans to achieve the three goals of
> universal access, increasing
> >> renewable energy, and doubling the rate of improvement
> in energy efficiency.
> >>
> >> Since 80 percent of human carbon dioxide emissions come
> from the global
> >> energy system, Rogelj and colleagues at the
> International Institute for
> >> Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenberg, Austria wanted
> to quantify the impact
> >> on the global climate.
> >>
> >> "Achieving the three SE4ALL objectives could put the
> world on a path towards
> >> global climate protection," they
> >>
> <http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1806.html
> >>> conclude in their paper "The UN's 'Sustainable Energy
> for All' initiative
> >> is compatible with a warming limit of 2 ?C".
> >>
> >> "Doing energy right will promote the Millennium
> Development Goals, such as
> >> poverty eradication and social empowerment, and at the
> same time kick-start
> >> the transition to a lower-carbon economy," says IIASA
> researcher David
> >> McCollum, who also worked on the study.
> >>
> >> "But the U.N.'s objectives must be complemented by a
> global agreement on
> >> controlling greenhouse gas emissions."
> >>
> >> Even if the targets are achieved, explosive economic
> growth coupled with
> >> greater energy use will overwhelm the climate
> protection benefits of SE4All.
> >> "There is an explicit need for a global cap on
> emissions," said Rogelj .
> >>
> >> Global carbon emissions were about 52 gigatonnes
> (billion metric tonnes) in
> >> 2012 and that means fossil fuel energy use must decline
> so emissions are
> >> about 41-47 Gt by 2020 to have a reasonable chance of
> keeping global warming
> >> below two degrees C.
> >>
> >> The shift to green energy is under way. Every new
> megawatt added to the U.S.
> >> electricity supply in January came from renewables, and
> more than half of
> >> all new electricity generation in 2012 was also from
> renewables, not gas as
> >> often believed.
> >>
> >> Iceland has 81 percent renewable energy. Scotland has a
> mandate to achieve
> >> 100 percent renewable power supply by 2020. Denmark
> passed laws requiring
> >> that the whole energy supply - electricity,
> heating/cooling, and
> >> transportation - be met by renewable resources.
> >>
> >> Stanford's Jackobson, among others, have proposed
> detailed plans on how to
> >> meet 100 percent of the world's energy needs with green
> energy. Jacobson
> >> believes it could be done as soon as 2030.
> >>
> >> Costs for the SE4All plan are relatively modest at
> between 30 and 40 billion
> >> dollars a year, a fraction of the 523 billion dollars
> in subsides for dirty
> >> energy in 2011, according to the International Energy
> Agency. By 2030, 300
> >> billion dollars a year will be needed to bring
> electricity into every home
> >> on the planet and prevent catastrophic climate change.
> >>
> >> Fossil fuel emission reductions will have to continue
> after 2030 and
> >> eventually decline to near zero in order to stay below
> two degrees C, said
> >> Rogelj.
> >>
> >> - See more at:
> >>
> http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/green-energy-solves-dual-crises-of-poverty-and-climate/#sthash.bCVEtR8U.dpuf
> >>
> >>
> >
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