[Stoves] Version 2.0 of TLUD history is available

[Lloyd Helferty]

Nolbert,

   You may recall that we had some discussions back in 2012 regarding a biochar stove project for Uganda with my colleague here in Toronto, Lucia Wamala, from the Toronto & GTA Women Entrepreneurs Network and Obie Agusiegbe, the organizer of 'EnvironBuzz', an Initiative of EnvironFocus Incorporated [Mississauga, Ontario], together with Dr. Paul Anderson, and Robert Ssemaganda (also from Uganda).

   Your suggestion (below) of connecting with the Nyabyeya Forestry (Vocational Training) College in Uganda is an excellent idea, and is probably a very important recommendation for our Climate Smart Ay Youth Network (CSAYN) Teams in Uganda as well.

   As such, I would also like to connect you with Elizabeth Mumbejja Kasujja, our CSAYN-Uganda Country Coordinator and Global Coordination Unit representative for Uganda, together with her colleague, Humphrey Mutaasa from cdi4africa and Mr. Divine Ntiokam, the Global Coordinator of the Climate Smart Ag Youth Network (CSAYN).

  More specifically, I would like to ask everyone to please consider joining the new*Organic and Halal Climate Smart Sustainable Agriculture Network*  group, which is being set up in support of E*nergime University*, together with the*MSB-Energime Climate Smart Leadership Team*, the*Canadian (Ontario-Alberta)**Climate Smart Food Team*  and the*Climate Smart Ag Youth Network *(CSAYN).

I will send you the links later, once the group has been confirmed and finalized.

Regards,

   
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On 2016-02-20 8:46 AM, Nolbert Muhumuza wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Thank you for your tireless efforts of documentation and continously
> contributing to the development of TLUD stoves.
>
> Tom; there is an institution in Uganda called Nyabyeya Forestry
> College that is training students on vocational level on issuea like
> efficient charcoal production, cook stoves design and production among
> others.
> www.nyabyeyaforestrycollege.ac.ug
>
> Nolbert.
>
> 2016-02-19 18:38 GMT+03:00, Tom Miles:
>> Richard,
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the comments. A lot has changed indeed. One big change is what
>> we
>> regard as acceptable living conditions and our ideas about the costs and
>> benefits of smoke going up through thatched roofs. Most of us probably
>> attributed the now familiar health effects of smoke to other causes. A lot
>> has been learned since those days.
>>
>>
>> We also had different priorities then. The early 70s was a time in which we
>> were more concerned about building housing for people that improving
>> cooking
>> efficiency. The focus was not necessarily on improved cookstoves.  We
>> designed modular rural housing for Costa Rica. We even built full scale
>> model houses here in Portland that we sent down as examples. Later at the
>> Mexican Forest service we looked for incentives for villagers to selling
>> the
>> first log at the base of a tee for a higher value as solid wood instead of
>> ruining the log by cutting out the ocote, or resin rich "fatwood", found at
>> the base of a tree for cooking fuel. We encouraged them to use
>> pre-commercial thinnings for firewood instead. (Then the government
>> changed.) That was also the time when our friend Ben Bryant was finding
>> solutions for replacing corrugated roofing with local natural fibers.
>>
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> From: Stoves [mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of
>> Richard Stanley
>> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 6:07 AM
>> To: Stoves and biofuels network
>> Subject: Re: [Stoves] Version 2.0 of TLUD history is available
>>
>>
>>
>> Small world Tom:
>>
>>   Ton de Wilde and colleagues were working on same thing with us in Tanzania
>> in the late 70's . Then there was little interest in improved cookstoves
>> few
>> people lots of open cooking and plenty of wood. My how that has changed now
>> eh!
>>
>> Richard Stanley
>>
>>   Nicaragua
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 18, 2016, at 10:45 PM, Tom Miles wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Julien,
>>
>>
>> "What I think we need more of is help for the practical cookstove
>> developers." Indeed.
>>
>>
>> Looking for help with cookstove development while working in forested areas
>> of rural Mexico in 1972-74 was something of a challenge. In the US in the
>> story of improved cookstoves were attempts at improved combustion like the
>> Lorena mud stove. While we worked with gasification from about 1976 to the
>> present and saw it applied to wood heating appliances in the US we didn't
>> see gasification applied to cookstoves until 1982-83 when I became
>> acquainted with the work at Eindhoven 1980-1987 which included downdraft
>> concepts. Their work was presented at European bioenergy conferences.
>>
>> http://www.cookstove.net/introduction.html
>>
>>
>> The stratified downdraft was being developed by Tom Reed at SERI to make
>> synthesis gases and was first demonstrated in 1982. We had a close
>> association with gasification work of all kinds during that period. My
>> experience with stoves in the 1980s was largely with various jikos
>> including
>> the ceramic jiko. Baldwin's work published by VITA became a good combustion
>> reference for practitioners who knew about VITA, and the Appropriate
>> Development Groups like (ITDG). Governments and aid agencies invested in
>> stove programs at this time but eventually abandoned them because the
>> impact
>> was not visible or measureable. As Paul has chronicled it was at this time
>> that Tom Reed started working with Fred Hottenroth and others who had an
>> interest in cookstoves.
>>
>>
>> At some point about 1989 Tom cooked part of our dinner on the Sierra ZMart
>> stove in his kitchen. He then applied for funding through a public agency.
>> We were asked to vet the proposal. I remember at the time that we found
>> very
>> little literature on a gasifying cook stove even though we had seen several
>> gasifying designs for wood heating appliances. It took months to get a
>> stove
>> because they were hand made in batches. We followed the water boiling tests
>> procedures of the time. We were intrigued and impressed by clear
>> gasification and char burnout stages of the stove. Our correspondence and
>> tests covered the period of about 1990-1992.
>>
>>
>> The interaction between engineering and design and field development and
>> testing was limited in global terms. Funding had a big impact on this. Most
>> of the work in the field was done by volunteers from non-profits and church
>> affiliated groups. The charitable work that has been done by these groups
>> has always been very impressive. About the time that we started this stoves
>> discussion list in 1994-1996 we began to see a slow increase in stoves
>> activity. As moderator Ron Larson did the community a greater service by
>> bringing people together inline and visiting them in the field. Ron, Alex
>> English and others were testing gasifying stoves at the time of the stoves
>> conference in Pune in 2000. Dean Still and Mark Bryden started ETHOS about
>> that time. Gasifying stoves struggled for attention with the growing
>> improvement of rocket stoves. I think that Boiling Point was still
>> "bubbling" and the Intermediate Technology Group became Practical Action.
>> HEDON was created.  The dream of increasing interaction in the field was
>> boosted with the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air and later the Global
>> Alliance for Clean Indoor Air. But it is still difficult for stove
>> developers to benefit from the big budgets being spent today on cookstove
>> development. At our recent ETHOS meeting stove developers, who mostly work
>> in the field, wondered how they could benefit from all the work being done
>> in the laboratories. So we still have the challenge.
>>
>>
>> Tom
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