[Stoves] News 7 September 2016: "Clean Cookstoves Need Better Performance Guidelines" (ES&T)

[Traveller]

Clean Cookstoves Need Better Performance Guidelines Daniel L. Wilson, LBNL

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.5b05628

"However, while emission rate and indoor concentration are mechanistrically
linked, indoor concentrations from episodic sourcese are not meaningfully
linked with respiratory intake or uptake.4 The implicit assumption of
today’s standards is that a cookstove with lower emission rates will lead
to lower indoor concentrations of pollutants and will therefore be safer
for the user. However, this assumption is not necessarily true."

Amen.

What next? Would somebody talk about cooking deaths and the basis of WHO
IAQ Guidelines?

Or about what service standard a "performance standard" is to be sought to
linked to?

Or whether exposure changes and disease incidence can be predicted over the
next 30 years with any degree of reliability?

Who are scientists accountable to, even when they are (or not) accountable
to themselves?

Time to bring on lawyers and economists to examine proper use of taxpayers'
money. (Foundations are subsidized via tax exemptions.)

Would anybody consider going back to the basics - what is cooking, why is
cooking, who is cooking, how is cooking?

Nikhil
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