[Stoves] Day 2 Report on Day #1 (Saturday) of ETHOS conference
Frank Shields
franke at cruzio.com
Sun Jan 31 01:14:25 CST 2016
Thanks Ron for this update.
Frank
> On Jan 30, 2016, at 10:58 PM, Ronal W. Larson <rongretlarson at comcast.net> wrote:
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> List:
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> 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.
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> 7:30-8:30 Most of 8-10 booths open for chatting with individuals - with breakfast materials available
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> 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 )
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> 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)
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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 <http://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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Apologies for errors and omissions above.
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