[Stoves] [Ethos] BURN wins '2015 Ashden Clean Energy for Women and Girls Award'!

Dean Still deankstill at gmail.com
Sat Jun 20 13:00:39 CDT 2015


Hi Cecil,

Larry Winiarski thought up a set of design principle ideas thirty years ago
about how to make better stoves. Today the ideas have 'gone viral' and the
Rocket stove ideas are helping all sorts of manufacturers to make better
stoves, from one at a time shops to manufacturers with a capacity of over a
million a year.

Tom Reed, Wendelbo, Anderson, Larson, Harris are also introducing the world
to the TLUD concepts both natural draft and forced draft.

The BURN Lab charcoal stove introduces improvements to the traditional
design and as with the Rocket and TLUD anyone can copy the innovations and
in this way stoves in use evolve.

I don't see this process as a competition with one side winning and the
other side loosing. Peter Scott has pushed, with so much energy and verve,
to help folks with better stoves and I admire his efforts and courage. The
funders of his projects have seen far reaching changes as a result of these
efforts.

Yes, the world inches along at a rather slow pace but movers and shakers
like Peter seem to me to do great work in speeding up the pace of
innovation.

Best,

Dean

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 9:13 AM, <cec1863 at gmail.com> wrote:

> For those old enough to remember the long hot political insanity of the
> summer of 1968‎ and in recognition what Peter Scott and his Team at Burn
> Labs on Washon Island and in Kenya are attempting to do in East Africa:
>
> "Burn Baby Burn!"
>
> But this is a marathon and not a 100 meter sprint event and the race is
> just starting. Why are Kenyan and Ethiopian runners so unbeatable in
> running long distances? Because they are low mass and have relatively huge
> lung capacity. If Burn Labs wants to win the stove marathon they need to
> pay close attention to the low mass high air flow and exchange capacity of
> their stoves because at an unsubsidized cost of +\- $50 per pothole it is
> almost certain than Kenyan runners will monopolize the winners podium in 5
> years time because local it will be impossible for high tech high cost
> ‎American engineering to match the quality and price performance of locally
> engineered and produced stoves that will inevitably designed and fabricated
> by local companies. I predict the price of the improved multi purpose
> household stove that will win the Kenyuan Clean Stove Marathon 5 years
> hence will achieve lower emissions and higher thermal efficiency perform
> than today's Burn Lab winning HH stove. What's more the stove that win the
> Stove Cost Benefit Marathon in 5 years will retail for less than $25, it
> will take the place of the KCJ and it will be a semi industrialized hybred
> stove that combines craft production with precision stamping of critical
> components. The winning stove will make use of the thousands of distributed
> stove fabricators all over east Africa to produce, sell and repair the
> winning stove and there will ne little destruction of stove manufacturing
> jobs. The winner stove will make use of the existing well institutionalized
> network of producers and vendors in East Africa rather than compete against
> this powerful and versatile institutionalized network of thousands of stove
> producing craftsmen and women. I predict that this resilient network of
> Kenyan stove makers will defeat the well financed anglo-american initiative
> in Kenya and send the Burn Lab team to the showers.
>
> It is not the outcome I want but it is the outcome the development
> anthropologist that I have become after observing 40 years of development
> imperialism here in Africa on the balance of probabilities is by far the
> most likely future for the Burn Lab venture in E Africa.
>
> If asked I will advise Burn Lab  or any ‎combination of serious SoCap
> investors and public sector programs exactly how to smuggle radically
> improved locally fabricated stoves into the existing network of stove
> producers in E Africa and rapidly saturate the regional stove markets with
> high performance "tweaked" stoves that are cheap enough so they do not
> require any subsidies besides the cost to redesign the traditional KCJ
> stove and tyhe cost to train groups of dispersed stove producers how to
> radically "tweak" the traditional stove in situ so that it will outperform
> the Ashdon Award winning stove designed by the Burn Lab team.
>
> So I am challenging Burn Lab to stay in the Marathon for 5 years and then
> we will see who produces the greatest numbers of  improved stoves stoves,
> and how much it costs for a Burnm Lab stove to save a ton of CO2 and to
> conserve a ton of firewood conserved. The maraton will be run and scored by
> comparing the actual costs of an impoved stove to save a ton of CO2 and a
> ton of firewood or charcoal. I am speaking here of all cost..... not just
> some costs. So we look at all expenditures in and stoves produced and
> audited use rates after 5 years have passed.
>
> Who do you think will win this marathon‎? The Burn Team or the hundreds
> and thousands of already distributed makers of radically tweaked KCJ stoves.
>
> In search and service,
> Cecil CooK
> TechnoShare SA
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>   *From: *Paul Anderson‎
> *Sent: *Saturday, June 20, 2015 8:48 AM
> *To: *ethos at vrac.iastate.edu; Stoves and biofuels network; peter burn;
> Paul Means - Burn
> *Reply To: *Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
> *Subject: *Re: [Stoves] [Ethos] BURN wins '2015 Ashden Clean Energy for
> Women and Girls Award'!
>
> Congratulations to BURN for winning a 2015 Ashden Award!!!
>
> This would be an appropriate time for BURN to make a technical statement
> on the Listservs about the stove, and where and how the stoves can be
> obtained in North America and elsewhere outside of Kenya.   Personally, I
> want to purchase one.
>
> 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 6/19/2015 4:33 PM, BURN wrote:
>
>
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> <http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f88505e36e197aef841ab1842&id=acdc8926e1&e=ea045925b6>                             We
> won!
> *Watch the Ashden Award video here:*
> <http://burnstoves.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f88505e36e197aef841ab1842&id=de2081473a&e=ea045925b6>
>
> Our team is thrilled to be recognized by The Ashden International Awards,
> the world’s leading green energy awards, for our work in transforming the
> lives of more than 300,000 Kenyans through the manufacture and sale of the
> revolutionary jikokoaTM cookstove. The jikokoa, manufactured in Kenya,
> reduces household fuel consumption by 55%, emissions by 64%, and fuel costs
> by ~$200/yr.
>
> In the last 18 months Kenyan consumers have spent over US$1.7 million to
> purchase 65,000 jikokoas. These stoves have helped consumers save 272,000
> tons of wood and over $8 million in reduced fuel costs.
>
> BURN was represented at the Award ceremony by Boston Nyer, BURN's Chief
> Product Officer and Hildah Wanjiku, one of the rising stars of BURN's
> sales team in Kenya. It was a big event for Hildah as she enjoyed her first
> plane ride and was able to receive the award for our 100+ team who have
> dedicated so much to BURN.
>
> Boston and Hildah accepted the award for Clean Energy for Women and Girls
> from Minister Baroness Verma in-front of 400 people at the Royal Geographic
> Society.  In an action packed week, they also met minister Grant Shapps and
> Kandeh Yumkella, the former United Nations Under-Secretary-General.
> Previous speakers at the awards include Al Gore and Prince Charles.
>
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>                    Hildah, shown here with an earlier version of the
> jikokoa, was one of our first and most passionate owners of a jikokoa.
> In the last 2 years Hildah has become one our greatest sales agents,
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