[Stoves] What would you do with 30.5 million dollars?
Traveller
miata98 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 7 09:41:46 CST 2016
Frank:
Some $50+ million have already been spent, just in the last six years, on
computing "air pollution" as "risk factor" in "premature deaths" in various
cohorts as part of the Global Burden of Disease circus.
GACC, which probably doesn't get any money directly from the US Government,
has also spent or committed around $30.5+ million in the last six years. I
can't tell because the financial reports are not public, perhaps because it
does not have an independent legal standing, just a project of Turner's
Foundation.
Tell you what - join GACC, raise $30.5 m, and you will earn a fat bonus.
And a promotion to Clinton Foundation or Gates Foundation.
Nikhil
On Nov 7, 2016, at 12:29 AM, Frank Shields <franke at cruzio.com> wrote:
Dear Tom, Crispin, Stovers,
There is available 30.5 million dollars thats going to be spent by one
University to determine if lives will be saved if biomass burners switched
over to LPD - an I reading that correctly? So I ask; What would I do with
the 30.5 million dollars?
1) Map out Globally where the poorest of the poor live. People so poor they
cannot afford LPG. People the 30.5 funds are ignoring and leaving behind.
2) List, collect and categorize the fuels they have available and inventory
the amount.
3) Pick several types of stoves that represent the ones available (rocket,
TLUD, rice and dung etc) and determine the fuel characteristics that are
most important in the stove operation.
Moisture, size and shape of particles, carbon density, bulk density,
Volatile fraction at 450c, ash etc. etc.
4) Assay the fuels collected in number (2) for the important parameters
found in (3).
5) Match the available solid biomass fuels to a list of appropriate stoves
on the market.
6) Set up labs and certification program.
7) List of approved methods for the labs to use in testing.
8) Once the above is completed we can then take the stoves matched with the
appropriate fuels and Cook Food.
9) Then is the time to test air quality.
Wondering what others would do if they got the 30.5 million dollars and
wanted to make a difference??
Regards
Frank
Frank Shields
Gabilan Laboratory
Keith Day Company
On Nov 6, 2016, at 10:00 AM, Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:
The Global Alliance for Chronic Disease (CACD), which is coordinating the
study, appears to be looking at LPG as an alternative to wood and not in
combination with wood as discussed in the “context” thread. There is no
mention of protocols or comparisons among fuels. What is being used to
represent “wood” smoke?
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-contributes-global-effort-
prevent-manage-lung-diseases
The study appears to be the result of a 2015 funding opportunity
announcement and is a joint project of NIH, the Gates Foundation, the
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC), and the Global Alliance for
Chronic Diseases (GACD). If I have the correct announcement LPG wasn’t
specified in the original solicitation. Second hand cigarette smoke was.
The solicitation was directed only to universities. Emory University will
conduct the study.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HL-16-012.html
Are there studies which address the use of multiple fuels and the impact of
improved cook stoves?
Tom
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*Sent:* Saturday, November 05, 2016 4:01 PM
*To:* adam at instove.org
*Cc:* Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
*Subject:* SPAM: Re: [Stoves] NIH and Gates Foundation-Funded Research to
Measure Health Benefits of Clean Cookstoves
Adam, list:
There's more to this, going back to 21 September 2010 when HRC announced
GACC at CGI and a press release announcing US support for clean cookstoves.
I will send it to you and Tom separately in case you are interested. I have
excerpted key parts below.
NIH and CDC have spent some $42 m on cookstoves and health as of last FY;
probably another $5m this FY just ended in Sept. See The United States'
Commitment to the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves: Year Five Progress
Report <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2015/09/247240.htm>.
I don't think new woodstove designs or dissemination have anything to do
with that research so far or the new research proposed, which is about *LPG
users. *
As GACC notes, it is to
"monitor the stove use and exposure to household air pollution of
participating households in India, Rwanda, Guatemala, and Peru. The study
will assess health outcomes, including birth weight, growth, and
respiratory infections in children and respiratory function, blood
pressure, and inflammation in adults."
Of course.
This is parasitic research, It is to make a health case for LPG because the
health case against solid fuels has already been cooked up and blared on
all media all over. This Community of Practice is irrelevant for this
research, I am afraid.
As for the Gateses, the money will probably go to the super-human beings at
IHME who dish out deaths by assumptions every six months now, it seems.
IHME has loads of Gates money, and of course they have WHO and the media
lapping at their hands and feet. Everybody seems to be convinced by
cite-o-logy.
I wouldn't mind this if users did not want LPG and had to be persuaded.
Which - as far as I can tell - is NOT the case.
Yes, LPG emissions can have PM2.5. And yes, food emissions may also have
PM2.5. Under the assumption that all PM2.5 are equally toxic, of course
this global health folks will want to poke their noses in "participating
households". They will enjoy the smells, I can guarantee.
Remember, only USAID can put money in other countries for stove research
and dissemination. And even there its hands are tied on procurement.
Nikhil
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Excerpts from Sept 21, 2010 press release:
*"Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)*
*-National Institutes of Health (NIH) –$24.7 million*
§ NIH will commit about $24.7 million over five years to support ongoing
research and research training projects, as well as new efforts to develop
improved measuring devices, expand epidemiologic studies and conduct
clinical trials. Ongoing projects include studies on the cookstove-related
effects on pulmonary and cardiac diseases, the relationship between indoor
air pollution and low-birth weight, and studies on the most effective ways
to introduce and educate users on safety and the proper use of cookstoves.
Training programs help prepare scientists in low- and middle-income
countries to engage in related research and evaluation activities.
§ NIH will also lead and co-sponsor an international state-of-science
cookstoves conference in late Spring 2011. The Office of Global Health
Affairs, within HHS’ Office of the Secretary, will contribute $100,000 to
support this conference.
-*Centers for Disease Control (CDC) – $1 million*
As a founding member the CDC is committing to working closely with Alliance
members and the global community to:
§ Demonstrate the health benefits of implementing clean cookstove programs
§ Better understand the relationship between human exposures and health
outcomes
§ Integrate cookstove implementation with other public health programs
§ Evaluate cookstove program implementation
*OVERVIEW*
§ *Nearly 2 million premature deaths every year*
*............*
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On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 2:35 PM, <adam at instove.org> wrote:
I have written to the Director of the NIH about this study, and have not
heard back. Sometimes going straight to the top works, but not this time,
apparently.
What I would like to know is whether anyone in this community of practice
was part of the discussions around this research. At the price tag, this is
the single largest cookstove study that I've ever heard of. Anyone know of
a larger one?
Anyone know which stove models are going to be studied?
Anyone know how the countries were selected (and Africa was somehow
missed)?
Is there any clarity on this? I feel pretty blindsided. I just spoke with a
Gates Senior Program officer who retired last month. She reaffirmed what
I'd heard before: "No way" that Gates can fund cookstoves. Yet this
week...this.
How did this happen? When will details come out?
Anyone have any insights? Would love to be more informed, but feeling
pretty blindsided now. Echoing Nikhil's disappointment if this
historically-well-funded study by the largest US Foundation turns out to be
a paean to LPG.
Would prefer an LPG swan song (re: Nikhil's "wild goose chase").
Adam
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Subject: Re: [Stoves] NIH and Gates Foundation-Funded Research to
Measure Health Benefits of Clean Cookstoves
From: Traveller <miata98 at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, November 04, 2016 5:15 pm
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
<stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Tom:
This is to cook White House South Lawn meals for the researchers of "links"
and "associations" that WHO and GACC can later call "causes".
It is a "multi-country trial to investigate the correlation between home
use of clean cookstoves using liquefied petroleum gas and its measurable
health benefits, particularly for women and children."
Duh!! Why? Don't most cooks want to switch to LPG? This isn't like
measuring - if at all possible - "health benefits" - whatever they may be -
of newfangled biomass or coal stoves, and then marketing them for the
health benefits. If users are going to switch to LPG or electricity anyway,
I suppose NIH could get into the health damage due to LPG and electricity.
After all, the Empire Promotion Agency has declared that GHGs "endanger"
American public's health.
Coming to think of it, maybe this is an ideological response to the
anti-carbon nuts who claim LPG is to be avoided as a "fossil fuel" and
"renewable biomass" be pursued exclusively, no matter its health and
environmental effects (land, water and labor use, plus reliance on
livestock for manure)?
Only in America. How amusing and sad.
This is a - what? Wild goose chase? Going up alleys known to be blind?
Or confirming the obvious, but subjecting the control group to continue to
suffer the health damage?
What are they going to do with the LPG option offered to users who
participate in the study? Take the cylinders and stoves back?
Why even bother, since Kirk Smith says, LPG is "the fuel that could save
millions of lives every year. • By definition!" (Environmental Health in
India:What are the issues and what is India doing about it?
<http://ehsdiv.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/Presentations/2016/SRU%20Oct%2016%20used.pdf>
Sri
Ramachandra University, Chennai October 6, 2016.)
All I can say is that the glory of Gates in the Global Burden of Disease -
Killing by Assumption - is enhanced by the US government. Keeps Washington
(DC and State) busy.
Nikhil
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