[Stoves] Day 2 Report on Day #1 (Saturday) of ETHOS conference

[Ronal W. Larson]

List:

	This is really day #1 of the Official ETHOS conference;  Yesterday (Friday) was informal.  To really understand the layout - see the agenda at
	http://www.ethoscon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ETHOS-2016-Agenda-revJan28.pdf <http://www.ethoscon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ETHOS-2016-Agenda-revJan28.pdf>.  I’ll identify the sessions by the times listed there.  Missing times are for breaks and lunch/dinner.

7:30-8:30  Most of 8-10 booths open for chatting with individuals - with breakfast materials available

I.  8:30    Opening by Elisa Derby;   Introduced ETHOS board  (I don’t see them at the above site, but these are some:   Dana Charon,  Paul Means.  Larry Winiarski, Jessica Trainer,  John Mitchell )

II.   9‐10am   Plenary Discussion: Global Alliance update 
Ranyee Chiang + 3  (1 missing who couldn’t make it)  See http://cleancookstoves.org/about/our-team/index.html <http://cleancookstoves.org/about/our-team/index.html>
Brian Smith  (COO),  Richard Grinnell (South America specialist),  Neeraja Penumetcha (reporting, etc)

	As last year, the attendees were asked to choose a category from about a dozen.  All the slides will be up in a few weeks at the ETHOS site.  
Topics and key words (sort of in order):   Market change,  Health,  Budget commitments ($413 Millions of 2014),  Behavior Change Communication (BCC),  Marketing,  Evaluation and learnings,  8 focus countries (China, India, +6);  “Catalog”  (Need for more submissions - see http://catalog.cleancookstoves.org/ <http://catalog.cleancookstoves.org/>);  problems in selling to governments-NGO-real customers;  Chasing Numbers (not true - 28 Million in 2014 out of target 100 Million stoves by 2020)
	Main equation:   Tech/fuels   X  adoption/use/ventilation  X scale  = benefits for health, environment, livelihoods
Last 5 minutes:   Clean and Efficient,  Funding Decision,  Local - International,  Ghana conference

III.  10‐11am Department of Energy Biomass Stoves Grant update 
 Elliott Levine of DoE moderated;  slides all coming
  A.  Dave stokes  RTI  -  Thermoelectric with stoves
  B.   Ashok Gadgil (Berkeley National Lab)-  Thin film thermoelectric generator   5.3 kW  2.9  kW for simmer;  changing diffusion flame towards pre-mixed;  excellent graphs for 4 stoves + three stone fire;  No TLUDs
  C.  Tim Theiss   -  ORNL  - mostly on stainless alloys, finding that a FeCrSi alloy (to yet being marketed) looks quite promising.  1000 hour tests with salted woods
  D.  Jonathan  Posner   U Washington  achieved all Tier 4 with a (highly modified) Rocket,  working with Burn Lab
some study of TLUDs

IV.   11:30‐12:30pm Three-way session breakout;  I went to #3 on TLUDs
 A.   TLUD  modeling - Tillotson,  CSU  - Nice work with "Phase 2” study of adding fuel after main early pyrolysis (not good results)
 B.  Paul Anderson  - Ten Topics he is personally involved with  (ew key words that I wrote down)
	1.  Uganda Kenya;  T-CHAR  Awamu, Wisdom;  Niko Koa from Burn Mfg
	2.  Ghana  Abellon;  KNUST   Troika
	3.   South Africa;    FAABulous (Fan Assisted Appliance Base    w David Lello (see below)
	4.  Cameroon,  Sierra Leone
	5.  Guatemala:  Lake Atitlan;  Plancha,  AMSCLAE , bamboo,  C4 kilns,  Gustavo Pena
	6.  Haiti:  El Fuego delSol  (FdS
	7. TLUD-RH-F2A;  rice husk,  Joseph James
	8.  Bangladesh  and Canada;  with Julien Winter
        9.  Guatemala, El Salvador, USA, Ghana and Brazil;  C4 =  Controlled Covered Continuous Cavity;  Flame curtain
	10. Portugal and USA:  Gamdaric Industries ;  James Schoner
Biochar conf.  22-25 August
Displayed new stove from China - Mimi-Moto (design from Netherlands); as clean as LPG;    $38 wholesale

V   2:00-3:10:   Facilitated Discussion: Moving toward “cleaner” cooking energy systems at all levels
John Mitchell moderating;  5 min presentations (names not in agenda) + audience Q/A
	1.  Christa Roth (GIZ):  Health,  Climate,  Poverty,  Forest Degradation;  “Development Goals”;  Moisture content;  Ref Prof. Pam Jagger,  Fuel Lab,  Univ.  North Carolina;   SEC3  = Sustainable Energy and Cleaner Cooking Coalition; see  www.cleanercooking.org
	2.  Brian Smith (GACC) Tools -  Clean Cooking catalog (includes fuels);  FACIT  (Fuel Analysis, Comparison, & Integration Tool
	3.  Michael Johnson  (Berkeley);  WHO book  (Household ….Consumption);  AQG  (Exposure risk curve plots)
	4.  Nordica  McCarty; now (after Iowa State - Prof at OSU  (humanitarian engineering program);  Climate emphasis - used Nate Johnson data for Mali village  approx 6 MJ/yr per person;  thesis paper with Bryden  2015;  Emphasis on usability and adoption
	5.  Paul Means,  Burn Lab;  Why do people pick particular stoves;  need to push envelope;  “learning can be fun”
	7.  Cristal Cheong - Malawi is poorest country

Q time (for 35 minutes)
	Random comments from attendees:  Rocket opening size problems;  Peer pressure (more came to use);  opposite: refusal to change;  lessons from health studies (Malaria).   Often promoting a technology is  predictable - but not same for stoves.   Need to think of attractiveness;   have to figure out what women want;  coming carbon negativity possibilities for biochar from biomass - but stoves could then be more modern - future low cost electricity, liquids and gasses all possible from biomass with char output.


VI   3:50‐4:50pm Breakout again.   I went to #1  Financing/distribution
   A.  Vahid Jahangiri  /Creative Distribution Models in Haiti and Uganda
 Used Community Development Clubs  for financing with WASH;  now his group is a main stove player in Haiti,  working with plastic collection centers  (sell stoves there);  at some large factories can sell through paycheck deductions;  gave 5 elements of success, such as context dynamics & synergies  (slides coming)
    B.  Obama Stove - Luni Libes of Fledge group (Seattle);  funding early entrepreneurs from developing countries ($20k each +10-week training);  have had 52 graduates (7 at a time);  Example: Ethiopia with ceramic charcoal burner;  250 k units sold,  now using 1 large briquette
    C.  Dave Lello of Capetown  “Bridging the price gap between ND TLUDs and FA TLUDs with a PAYG option”;   putting together an energy package for $20/month with solar PV;  phone recharge and stove fan;  using  PAYGo;  only need add 2-3 PV watts for stove fan.

VII. 5‐5:30pm   Panel Discussion: ISO update 
	There are 4 Working Groups:  - working on tight timetables.  I missed most of this, but know John Mitchell, Ranyee Chiang and Elisa Derby reported.  They should be contacted for specific responsibilities.
	Example WG4  (Elisa Derby subbing here) Social Impacts:  covers Social-economic, Gender, Employment, Time Use, Perceptions of factors related to well-being,  Health, Accidents and safety, Exposures,  Environmental - all these on a per capita basis;
 Final Working and Committee drafts due in March and April 2016

VIII:  7:15 - 8:00  Open Space
	John Mitchell coordinating two groups - one biochar related (I went to) and one on materials.   Art Donnelly was the leader with Paul Anderson, by virtue of suggesting the topic;  about 25 attending here.  Art gave background on his work in Costa Rica (mostly) in six villages using bamboo with water filtration aspects and cacao;  emphasis on loosening clay soils;  Tom Miles noted use in seedling growth (saving money over vermiculite).  I noted uses to replace liming, feed to cattle, evening out a field;  saving water and fertilizer, mine-land reclamation;  Cool Vege sales in Japan; fire intensity reduction,  sandy soil improvement,  invasive species.  Paul Anderson noted the list of 55 ways to use biochar in paper by Hans-Peter Schmidt.

Apologies for errors and omissions above.

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