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

[Anurag]

Check with Sailesh Rao of climate healers.com : his research states something to the effect that if humans turn vegan for 3 years, it can reverse carbon emissions added over the last 1 century. His calculations are based on a complex simulation which models the emissions contributed by culling for beef. That effect is an exponential of what burning of biomass / cow dung does.

He originally invented the Ethernet in Bay Area 20 years ago (the wire that used to connect your laptop to the router before wifi came along). Now he has invented a stove that retrofits into a 3 stone mud stove, lasts for 10 years and costs  US $ 6 only. I am testing the surprising smoke and fuel reduction.

Steve Jobs was right - the best designs are the simplest ones. And the most intuitive thing Rao has done is to not make the 3 stone stove as "Evil" as everyone in the stove industry does. Instead of changing that stove with a high cost one, he worked with and around the 3 stone stove - high adoption is almost guaranteed.

Anurag Bhatnagar

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> On 01 Sep 2016, at 10:27 PM, Traveller <miata98 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Anil:
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> Are you suggesting the USEPA folks should set emission targets for manure management? 
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> Cow poop is ok, it is the Anthropocene bull manure that only a select few can digest, anaerobically of course. 
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> "a small clay pisspot is a cutting-edge technology"? 
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> Yeah, for the New Age nuevau riche of the New york times. 
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> 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. 
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> But those who want to cook up numbers and careers, research papers and propaganda, will stop at no BS. 
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> 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. 
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> Go read Nadine Unger.  
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> Or Nick Stern, who I believe has gone veg. (I also hope he gave up sugar.) 
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> Then again, there was some paper a few years ago claiming beef is a superior food because its carbon footprint can be quite low. 
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> I prefer to be a horse. But I am fond of BS; academia and media give me such earthy fragrances all the time. 
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> Nikhil
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> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:41:04 +0530
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> Hello stovers,
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> 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
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> Cheers.
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> Anil K rajvanshi
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