[Stoves] WG: AW: Ghana Cook Stove

[Dr.Ch.ADAM]

Hmm,a lot of photos about drilling machine, pots, vegetable, woman, 
pretending toe be a nicely done homepage-
but not a single photo showing well the new stove !!?? !!
Chris ADAM
https://medium.com/@Kiva/finding-a-green-local-solution-to-a-deadly-household-chore-7e61f0283691
 
 
 
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Betreff: Re: [Stoves] Ghana Cook Stove
Datum: 2017-08-09T14:50:10+0200
Von: "Nikhil Desai" <pienergy2008 at gmail.com>
An: "exiledspirit at gmail.com" <exiledspirit at gmail.com>, "Discussion of 
biomass cooking stoves" <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
 
 
 
Some followup: 

ASA Initiative's record on Kiva website is not so positive - 
https://www.kiva.org/about/where-kiva-works/partners/392
<https://www.kiva.org/about/where-kiva-works/partners/392> .

Average cost to borrower is 33% per year, delinquency rate is 59.33%, loans 
at risk are 73.99%, default rate is 5.1%.

With do-gooders like these, selling $250 stoves, there has to be a Gold 
Standard fakery. 

Nikhil
 
 

On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Nikhil Desai <pienergy2008 at gmail.com
<mailto:pienergy2008 at gmail.com> > wrote:
  The headline is sheer hype, considering that the first picture shows
  traditional mud stove outside the dwelling. 

  At $250 a stove, no surprise that the ASA has made only 99 stove loans so
  far. 

  Not terribly positive. Sounds more like selling "green" in the "green
  loans". 

  At least these stove makers didn't have to go through the route of
  boiling water in test centers with dubious protocols, equipment and
  metrics. It is good to read "ASA worked with the community to determine
  the shape, size and color of the stove as well. The original design came
  from Italy, but they received feedback that the legs that weren’t strong
  and stable enough and that the color, a bright orange, was offputting." 



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  Nikhil Desai
  (US +1) 202 568 5831
  Skype: nikhildesai888

  On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Daniel-John Peterson <
  exiledspirit at gmail.com <mailto:exiledspirit at gmail.com> > wrote:
    Positive story from Ghana here. Any comments on this article?

    https://medium.com/@Kiva/finding-a-green-local-solution-to-
    a-deadly-household-chore-7e61f0283691
    <https://medium.com/@Kiva/finding-a-green-local-solution-to-a-deadly-household-chore-7e61f0283691>
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