[Stoves] Version 2.0 of TLUD history is available

Wed Mar 23 06:43:50 CDT 2016

Thanks Lloyd
Setting up the Biochar Stove Iniiative in Uganda is welcome and as CSAYN country coordinator I would like to link up with that vocational college and we craft a way forward.

Please for those in Uganda , iam on +256772321736 or 704778646

Lets move fast.
Humphrey

Humphrey Mutaasa
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Subject: Re: [Stoves] Version 2.0 of TLUD history is available
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From: lhelferty at sympatico.ca
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:11:47 -0500

    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 Energime 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
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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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