[Stoves] Off-topic no longer, re: News from Colorado: 'Rolling Coal"

Traveller miata98 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 09:13:02 CDT 2016


Teddy:

Thank you. That news item has great relevance to this list.

There are no "clean car engines" per se; their alleged cleanness or
"emission rates" depend on fuel quality.

Which is why "Clean Cookstoves" - global alliances or blogal dalliances -
is a silly term.

There are no "clean cookstoves" per se; only in combination with fuels, and
in the context of operating practices and local environment (ventilation,
wind, ambient air quality, other sources of emissions ranging from food and
smoking to open waste.)

The scientist collective at the ISO 2012 IWA on cookstoves (Guidelines for
evaluating cookstove performance
<https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:iwa:11:ed-1:v1:en>)

""recognizes that the quality and type of fuel used by a testing centre may
impact the emissions of a cookstove. Because of that, the International
Workshop on Cookstoves recommends that testing centres document the key
physical and operational characteristics (e.g. fuel, moisture content, pot
size and shape) of the system."

Whatever little I know suggests that temperatures and air flows determine
the ratio and composition of PICs and that at relatively low temperatures
and irregular air flows, fuel chemistry plays a critical role. But there's
nothing here about chemical composition.

Is it any wonder folks go mumbling about "solid fuels", "dirty fuels"?
(More on that later.)

WHO/GBD claims on the "global dataset for cooking fuel use" are bubbly
champagne - or dope - served up to minors. (Remember the song "Goodnight,
farewell" in Sound of Music where Liesel asks for her first taste of
champagne?)

Let me put it bluntly - WHO has manufactured a "global emergency" based on
non-existent data and questionable intelligence. (Burning Opportunity
<http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/204717/1/9789241565233_eng.pdf>,
marketing the GBD adventure of killing by assumption as a global health
emergency
<http://www.ccacoalition.org/en/news/new-who-report-household-air-pollution-driving-global-health-emergency>
)

Clean Cookstoves are dirty business.

I for one do not believe one needs convincing evidence to act on reducing
pollution exposures of vulnerable populations. The challenge is not
compiling reams and reams of dubious data and faulty forecasts - of YLD and
YLL - but to please the cooks.

Ron here thinks I have soured on science. Living in Washington, I am
familiar with the politics of science and the science of politics. What is
going on is corrupting intelligence. There is an emergency in "global
health", namely, it has little to do with individual health.

Nikhil


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On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Cookswell Jikos <cookswelljikos at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What a story....similar to this gem is a story in todays newspaper
> regarding air pollution from bad fuel rejected by the EU and dumped in the
> African market -
>
> ''The high-sulphur fuels also have a knock-on effect, rapidly destroying
> emission-reducing technologies in vehicles, according to Rob de Jong, the
> head of the UNEP transport programme. “So if you buy a vehicle that’s a
> couple of years old and import it into some of the African countries, the
> technology in there – sensors and filters – all gets spoilt, and these
> cars, which are potentially very clean, are destroyed in a couple of tanks,
> and for the next 20 years will be belching smoke. It’s important to
> understand the tragedy of this,” he said. This in turn increases emissions
> of fine particulate matter, which can lodge deep in the lungs, causing
> cancers and other health problems.
> Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/
> 2000217548/dirty-diesel-rejected-in-europe-exported-to-africa''
>
> I certainly hope something like this cannot happen with LPG cooking gas or
> that all those generators in Lagos and Accra are not pumping smoke into the
> kitchens with induction stoves :(
>
> Teddy
>
>
>
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