[Stoves] China and cookstoves [Was Re: A user-centered, iterative engineering approach for advanced biomass cookstove design and development]

[Nikhil Desai]

Paul:

This is not a matter of "correct" or "incorrect". You and I have different
theories.

Nothing matters until new stoves are found usable by cooks and used. I
happen to want to target non-household customers first, and show biomass
stoves competitive with LPG in terms of consumer preference.

My disagreement with Ron was not technical, simply a view on how consumer
surveys are and ought to be done when public money is involved. Private
projects can do anything they wish.

Nikhil


On Dec 4, 2017, at 12:47 PM, Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu> wrote:

Nikhil,

I reply to only one statement (two sentences) by you to Ron.  You wrote:

My view - uninformed by questionnaires, of course - is that household
cookstoves are not the way to get biochar for soil conditioning. It should
be a large-scale industrial project.

Totally not correct.

If and when large-scale industiral production of biochar kicks into gear,
that will be fine and welcome.

Meanwhile, char producion with household cookstoves is aready functional in
West Bengal.  However, the char is sold for purposes of being burned.   But
it is physically there if and when the biochar community provides
sufficient justification for the char (appropriately prepared) to be put
into soil.

(I have a further comment about char in a message soon to reply to Crispin.)

Paul


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