[Stoves] Fwd: [stove] 30 years went by quickly

[Paul Anderson]

Stovers,

The message below from Kirk Smith's Stove List (Not StoveS, and not a 
ListSERV where there is discussion) is interesting reading.

He is totally correct that in America ( and probably Europe and 
elsewhere) the term "Biofuels" does NOT include dry biomass.

American politicians refer to "renewable energy" as solar, wind and 
biofuels.   They NEVER mention wood and other dry biomass for renewable 
energy.   But so much of our energy needs is for thermal energy, even 
water heating at below boiling point.

Paul

Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu
Skype:   paultlud    Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website:  www.drtlud.com



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Date: 	Thu, 12 May 2016 14:27:40 -0700
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*“~30th Anniversary Edition” of /Biofuels, Air Pollution and Health/. ***

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Nearly 3 decades after publication of the first and still, I believe, 
only book laying out the major issues around what we now call household 
air pollution, it is available for free download in pdf – see below and 
on my website.   It began to address most all of the issues we still 
struggle with except, perhaps, the climate angle, which I am coming to 
think in any case is a bit of a red herring even though we also 
introduced the concept of what is now called “co-benefits” and made the 
first measurements related to cookfuel/stoves in the early 1990s.  
   Unfortunately, however, unthinking application of climate concerns 
now operates as a deterrent in some quarters to embracing truly clean 
cookfuel alternatives that have so much benefit to offer the very 
poorest populations.

Note, I have long stopped using the term “biofuels” to mean biomass 
fuels, since biofuels now have come to mean liquid and gaseous fuels 
made from biomass in most of the world’s literature and media.  
Continued use of “biofuel” by some in our community now serves to 
confuse things I am afraid: biomass fuel is a perfectly reasonable term 
and nicely parallel to fossil fuel, but most importantly we cannot fight 
the now widely accepted use of the term “biofuel”, which describes fuels 
with  entirely different characteristics/k

Modern Perspectives in Energy 
<http://link.springer.com/bookseries/6313>, (originally published by 
Plenum, which was purchased by) Springer

*1987, /Biofuels, Air Pollution, and Health/*/: *A Global Review*/*, 
Kirk R. Smith*

ISBN: 978-1-4612-8231-0 (Print) 978-1-4613-0891-1 (Online)

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4613-0891-1”

Kirk R. Smith, MPH, PhD <krksmith at berkeley.edu>

Professor of Global Environmental Heath

Chair, Graduate Group in Environmental Health Sciences

Director, Global Health and Environment Program

School of Public Health

747 University Hall

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720-7360

510-643-0793 (fax: 642-5810)

http://www.kirkrsmith.org/

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