[Stoves] What would you do with 30.5 million dollars?

[Frank Shields]

Perhaps the plan is to first prove that switching from solid biomass fuel to LPG will save lives and then more money will become available to supply LPG. But it might be cheaper to prove a small solar powered fan will do as much and in the long run cheaper to supply these  - or some like technology. Supplying LPG is ongoing. Supply a fan is once a year(?). So I am perplexed as to the purpose of the study. 

Regards

Frank
Frank Shields
Gabilan laboratory
Keith Day Company, Inc. 




 
> On Nov 8, 2016, at 2:26 AM, Xavier Brandao <xvr.brandao at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Frank,
> 
> "What would you do with all that money" is often a fun question to answer! It is a great question.
> Now, for the sake of the conversation, we wlion in R&D, both fundamental and applied, a massive, sector-wide, coordinated breakthrough R&D. To develop one or several better biomass stove technologies.
> 
> If this effort is a success ..... the dissemination will take care of itself. There are so many players on the field who will be happy to sell a great product, and make profit from it.
> 
> Not to oppose the two things, because they go together, so again, I will be caricatural: we spend too much money in measuring, assessing, studying. We don't spend enough money in doing, improving, making progress. Now we measure, we assess. And each time the same conclusions: shortcomings. These are the consequence of not doing enough to change the stove technologies.
> 
> But 30.5 millions USD spent by one university for only one study? Can someone confirm or infirm this information?
> Best regards,
> 
> Xavier
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