[Stoves] Forestry and fuel - charcoal crisis?
Otto Formo
terra-matricula at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 18 06:44:15 CST 2014
Dear Samer,
Your Reference to the publication from FAO is from 1997.
A a lot of changes has occured in the rural areas of Africa and other develpoing countries, regarding migrations to the lager cities.
Due to this fact, the demand for charcoal for Cooking, has increased dramatically, without question.
How can we denie, that burnig off about 50% of the energy content in the forest, than rather using 95% of the energy in woodfuel, linked to clean burning gasifier units?
Anyway, gasifier units are not a Magic bullet, but a well known Technology, used widely during the second World War in Europe.
Have a nice weekend.
Regards
Otto F.
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 06:17:32 -0600
From: psanders at ilstu.edu
To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Forestry and fuel - charcoal crisis?
All,
Is there a more legible copy of the slide set about charcoal?
Some of it would be useful information in other presentations.
And other slides leave questions in mind about what is actually
being shown.
Paul
Doc / Dr TLUD / Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email: psanders at ilstu.edu
Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website: www.drtlud.com
On 1/14/2014 12:02 AM, Cookswell Jikos wrote:
Dear Samer,
Thanks for sharing, but if indeed this is fully the case, I
wonder why the reduction of deforestation features so heavily
on most cookstove marketing pitches. (even mine sometimes!)
Further interesting reading that somewhat supports this is
a very good presentation done by ICRAF recently, that is aptly
titled, "What Happened to the Charcoal Crisis" http://www.slideshare.net/agroforestry/miyuki-iiyamaicrafcharcoal-review2013
It is a very good systematic review of many other woodfuel
papers in East Africa. It seems to be that on farm woodfuel is
becoming more and more of income generating wood energy
source.
All the best,
Teddy
Cookswell Jikos
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Samer
Abdelnour <samer.abdelnour at gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear all,
Just to contribute on the deforestation discussion. A dated
(1997) by
excellent resource by the FAO, which concluded that
deforestation
occurs mainly as a result of pressures for agricultural
land, logging,
and national infrastructure projects, not for cooking.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/w7744e/w7744e06.htm
Of course, I applaud efforts to source cleaner, more
sustainable fuel.
Perhaps these should be grounded in location specific
challenges (i.e.
community nurseries), not distorted by general mythologies
associated
with global problems and magic bullets.
Best,
Samer
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