[Stoves] Comparison fuel consumption - Time for changes

[Paul Anderson]

Tom,

Thanks for your good questions.

1.  Yes, much is about money.   Not much of it seems to come from or via 
GACC.   Certainly the literal Billions (yes billions) for LPG is from 
government and LPG industry, most notably in Indonesia (has oil) and 
India (imports oil, but Indian Government has a major hand in over 50% 
ownership of all petroleum business in India  -- so I have been told.)

2.  The 25 million stoves are largely approved for being counted because 
of improved FUEL efficiency (as in Rocket stoves).  But those do NOT 
reach the Tier 4 level.   And there will be millions of LPG stoves added 
to the count.  So we do expect the GACC to reach its 2020 goal of 100 
million acceptable stoves, but not the way we thought back in 2010.

3.  Who has paid for the stoves?  Eventually it comes down to the poor 
people  who either 1) pay for a stove (that was developed and stimulated 
by grant money), or 2) pay indirectly for a stove via the cost of the 
fuel, even if subsidized fuel as with LPG.

A THIRD way to cover the stove costs is via "income earning from the use 
of  the stove".  For this there are two examples from what I am doing:
A.  TLUD stoves are "charcoal making" stoves, and the people get paid 
for their charcoal
B.  TLUD stoves (and some others) can earn carbon credits, but this 
needs to be developed more for the advantage of the stove users than for 
the benefit of the stove manufacturers.

For both A and B, see the project description for Deganga 
www.drtlud.com/deganga-2016    I am working on an  expansion and 
improvement of that methodology, with an announcemnet coming soon.

4.  I see no issue about being "excluded" from  participating in the ISO 
efforts.   What will come will come.   There should be no efforts to 
lower the standards.  Please see the classification document 
http://www.drtlud.com/2017/04/11/classification-stove-technologies-fuels/ 
where "MACCS" groups together the "Modern Advanced Clean Cooking 
Solutions".   The old stoves called "Improved" Cookstoves (ICS) will be 
and should be a mark of NOT being good enough.

A Editorial note from Kirk Smith in 2011!!!!

<<<  Remind us never again to write “improved” stove without the 
quotation marks.   >>>

  Yes, in 2011.   See:
  Energy for Sustainable Development 15 (2011) 115–116
<<<   The current usual descriptor—“improved”—is thus poorly framed.
What is needed is something that looks to the best, not tries to
distance from the worst.  >>>

That Editorial is quite favorable about "the new generation of blower 
gasifier biomass stoves in India."

As stated in the cited Classification ..... document, gasifiers are in 
the same league (the MACCS) with the LPG stoves.   But one difference is 
billions of dollars for fossil LPG and minimal dollars for TLUD project 
implementation.

Paul

Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
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