[Stoves] Biomass briquetting tangents

[Nikhil Desai]

Andrew:

How true. Thank you for courageous words.

The cynic in me would readily apply this to various self-promotional and
grant/fund-raising efforts as well.

Same with manufactured facts. And global promises of the Next Coming of
Saviour Stoves.

Which is why I welcome Sujoy's suggestion - "to look at "rates of adoption"
and "continuity of use" of cook stoves for communities which have had
interventions by producers and non-profits with local stoves and those that
have received interventions by regional / international companies with
tested and standardised stoves."

The new D-Lab/MIT product is marketed as -  "handbook is focused on helping
to improve the design, usability, and performance of biomass cookstoves" -
with very little factual basis for what has determined usability and
performance in the past.

Those who refuse to learn from history can make and take fuel-free,
cook-free, context-free promises. We need a technical and financial audit
of this whole enterprise in the last seven years before the October
jumboree.

Nikhil


On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Andrew Heggie <aj.heggie at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 14 August 2017 at 04:25, Nikhil Desai <pienergy2008 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Tom:
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>> "*If* their stoves are not tested *or don't score well in lab tests*, *but
>> sell well because they are adapted to their markets, there is something
>> unhelpful about the "lab tests" metrics and protocols;"*
>>
>> Not necessaril as can be seen from the power of advertising, it isn't the
> best technology that wins it's the most desirable.
>
> Andrew
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