[Stoves] Need a "paper" for Boiling Point about char-making stoves

[Michael Clifford]

Hi Paul (and everyone),

It'd be good to have a paper to consider for this edition, but just a word of caution that the focus shouldn't just be on the technology. We're looking for case studies where people have switched to cleaner / improved / more appropriate cooking solutions, and whilst technology is one piece of the jigsaw, I'm increasingly convinced that access to finance, providing health education, addressing socio-cultural factors, and improving distribution networks for stoves and fuels are the issues that need to be tackled.

All the best,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Anderson [mailto:psanders at ilstu.edu] 
Sent: 31 March 2016 16:45
To: Stoves and biofuels network; biochar at yahoogroups.com; bp at hedon.info; Mike.Clifford at nottingham.ac.uk; Charlotte.Ray at nottingham.ac.uk; Sujatha Srinivasan
Cc: Doc Anderson
Subject: Need a "paper" for Boiling Point about char-making stoves

Dear Stovers and Biocharists,     (With copies to Boiling Point info and 
to guest editors at Notingham Univ.)

A forthcoming issues of "Boiling Point" should have an article about how char-making capabilities of some cookstoves (most clearly the TLUD micro-gasifiers, and maybe a few others) could be important as "enablers" for cookstove adoption and financing.

Here is the call, as found in Hedon Newsletter for March 2016:
http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=d7576a5bf72f0cb32babac35a&id=d6568e7e95&e=6a74edac67
> Call for Papers: BP69 'Enablers to Cookstoves'
>
> In partnership with Guest Editors - the University of Nottingham's 
> Barriers Project - BP69 will look beyond the Barriers to Cookstoves
> (BP64) and towards the enablers to cookstoves. We're accepting 
> articles for this issue until 30 June 2016. Please email bp at hedon.info 
> for submission guidelines and enquiries.
This article should touch upon how char-making can be a positive feature in cookstoves.

Working title:   Char-making Stoves Enable Stove Adoption     (can be 
changed, please.)
Topics include:
Carbon-negative operation ( climate-change impact) Ability to obtain carbon credits (example is the Champion stove by Servals with Atmosfair participation).
Soil enhancement (Biochar and increased food production)
Ability to use many "biomass refuse" types   (less need to cut down 
living trees)
Reduction of black carbon emissions (appeal to the educated societies and countries that should want the impoverished people to have such stoves so much at those with money should cover much of the cost of the
stoves)
etc
etc.
Note that this has NOT focused on the supposed "enablers of adoption" 
such as clean combustion/low emissions/better health aspects of cookstoves, of which the TLUDs / char-maker stoves are among the leading 
contenders.   Should that be a separate article? The Guest Editors could 
give us some guidance.

Either someONE needs to step up and want to write this paper, OR we need to have a MULTI-AUTHOR prime quality article.

Remember, Boiling Point is now an peer-reviewed journal, so this article can really count for those who need academic "credit".

NOTE:   I, Paul Anderson, will NOT be a sole author.   I would 
participate in a joint effort, but we need one or more lead authors.

DO NOT BE SHY!!!   If interested in WORKING on such a paper (or 
contrubutng some key segment), please make yourself known.   Perhaps a 
"working group" will be identified.

Paul

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Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu
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