[Stoves] Hi tech cow dung technology (Anil Rajvanshi)

[Traveller]

Anil:

Are you suggesting the USEPA folks should set emission targets for manure
management?

I think they already do in the US. Now all we need is for GACC to claim
biogas as such superior clean cooking technology - Kirk Smith argued that
in 2000 and I fully agree, just that there is too much open defecation by
man and animal -  that ISO must have lab testing at various scales.

Heck, I will even write the testing protocol and specify a standardized
bull, a standardized meal, standardized poop, ... They have the rest -
standardized water, standardized meals, standardized cooks. Just
unstandardized dose-response claptrap.

Cow poop is ok, it is the Anthropocene bull manure that only a select few
can digest, anaerobically of course.

"a small clay pisspot is a cutting-edge technology"?

Yeah, for the New Age nuevau riche of the New york times.

I once worked on a GHG offset project to both change cattle diet and to
reduce methane emissions. If I remember correctly, open cow manure in hot
areas dries up quickly and does not emit that much methane.

But those who want to cook up numbers and careers, research papers and
propaganda, will stop at no BS.

Seriously, the main point here is that biomass is not a climate-friendly
technology at all. Taken all the emissions from the production to
consumption of foods - including those due to cutting forests, open burning
of grass and leaves, forest fires - and valued in 20-year GWP terms, the
contribution to atmospheric concentrations is much greater than that, say,
from power generation.

Go read Nadine Unger.

Or Nick Stern, who I believe has gone veg. (I also hope he gave up sugar.)

Then again, there was some paper a few years ago claiming beef is a
superior food because its carbon footprint can be quite low.

I prefer to be a horse. But I am fond of BS; academia and media give me
such earthy fragrances all the time.

Nikhil


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Hello stovers,

You might enjoy reading this article in NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/t-magazine/cow-poop-design
-museum-castelbosco-farm.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

Cheers.

Anil K rajvanshi

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