[Stoves] Carbon management - one of several new metrics

[Nolbert Muhumuza]

Hello Jack,

I totally agree with you. 100 million clean cookstoves should benefit
and boost local economies as well as reduce deforestation, indoor air
pollution, and contribute to climate change mitigation.

I cant think of a better stove for local charcoal making (at
households level) than TLUD gasifier stoves. But its going to take a
combination of all clean cooking technologies.

I also think that the objectives and goals of the 100 million
cookstoves by 2020 should be properly and efficiently communicated to
partners. So that we target the same cause. For example, i think most
cookstove projects a purely about making loads of money. Which is OK,
but surely can not be the main objective.

Last but not least; governments, development partners and influential
individuals need to join the cause to help adaptation, and reducing
the final costs of these stoves.

Regards,

Nolbert.

2014-04-04 15:43 GMT+03:00, Jock Gill <jg45 at icloud.com>:
> Teddy,
>
> You are asking a very good questions.  What is the impact of the production
> of 100 million stoves?  Is there a cradle to cradle plan for them?  What is
> the carbon management strategy for them over their entire life cycle?  This
> is one reason I advocate for making stoves out of locally available
> materials.  This implies local construction which implies local economic
> activity.  This ends up with an edge based strategy empowering local peoples
> yet leveraging their capital, human and financial, in order to get the job
> done.  I still maintain that there is not enough political will to fund 100
> million stoves from centralized and remote sources of capital, private or
> governmental.
>
> As for charcoal, for my part, I am talking about the local stove user making
> charcoal, not burning charcoal.
>
> Another question is what are the consequences of traditional methods of
> making charcoal?  The thermal energy is wasted?  Transportation?
> Deforestation?  Do such questions suggest benefits for making charcoal while
> cooking rather than combusting charcoal to cook?
>
> What is the cumulative, life time, effect of 100 million stoves burning
> charcoal made in the "traditional" manner?  Can we develop a carbon strategy
> for stoves that is more in the direction of regenerative stweardship?
>
> Very curious.
>
> Jock
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>> On Apr 4, 2014, at 5:20 AM, Cookswell Jikos <cookswelljikos at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Jock and Crispin -
>>
>> This is a very interesting read, I just had a recent very interesting
>> experience with value addition of charcoal in a rural town in Kenya. A
>> lady recently bought a large oven to roast chickens at her restaurant in
>> Bomet town - she reckons that she can cook 20 whole roast chickens using
>> about 40ksh of charcoal (2bob per bird)....chickens are 400ksh raw and she
>> sells them for 950ksh roasted!
>>
>> I just have a couple of questions that came to mind from the above
>> correspondence - with the char - do you typically mean lumpwood charcoal
>> or chardust?
>>
>> Also from a systems analysis side of looking at this 'seed-to-ash' cycle
>> of biomass energy - do you know of any literature or experiences that
>> discuss the full life cycle analysis of making and distributing
>> cookstoves...of which I specifically wonder about the manufacturing
>> process - the raw materials, energy sources, machines (you may enjoy this
>> fascinating article on  from lowtechmag.com
>> how-sustainable-is-digital-fabrication)  and the buildings' carbon and
>> environmental impacts. And then eventually calculating the the cost of
>> final decommissioning of the cookstoves. (i.e. if the GACC goal of 100
>> million units at say even 100gm of metal per stove -i can be a big
>> undertaking).
>>
>> How much of a concern do you feel these slightly abstract aspects of
>> cookstove dissemination actually are against the larger immediate problem
>> of IAP and energy inefficiency. Is it simply a case of broken eggs to make
>> an omelette or is there some potential for a LEED type of certification
>> for cookstove manufacturers who use sustainable design in their production
>> process? After all if making a million stoves seriously pollutes a river
>> in China (well even more..) a openpit mine in Australia and the air
>> everywhere, does this not raise a case for looking into reducing these
>> impacts?
>>
>> Many thanks and hope to hear your thoughts on this matter.
>>
>> Teddy
>>
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>>
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