[Stoves] Who paid for development of popular improved stoves. (was...Re: "Those of us who believe that the WBT is critical to stove improvement")

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Paul

I was thinking of stoves that have been ‘widely adopted’ and 40,000 copies is not in that category. Chine has a biomass stove design that was adopted in the 20’s of millions. They have a coal stove design that is even more widespread. Both were designed with public funds.

India’s improved chula was publicly funded and there are many millions of them.

The Primus kerosene stove was privately developed, correct? That gained widespread use and was a huge improvement over the prevailing technologies.

What else from the private sector?

Thanks
Crispin


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Subject: [Stoves] Who paid for development of popular improved stoves. (was...Re: "Those of us who believe that the WBT is critical to stove improvement")

Crispin and all,

You wrote:

Most of the popular improved stoves were developed on the public nickel, not by individuals with the possible exception of the Sarai Cooker which has several hundred producers. I think that was done privately.
Please include most of the variety of TLUD stoves as being privately developed.  (reference is the "Origins and History...." document at www.drtlud.com<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drtlud.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cef4204d6af7d49a9d67208d5471cb354%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636493110947820085&sdata=NQm%2FNxApkAaPCy9LpB%2BNVfACCi92xcH1MIkRbD8tcQM%3D&reserved=0> )   Wendebo and Reed did efforts that were side issues of their employment.  My work as a retired professor only had some funds for 2 years in 2010-2012 from the BEIA project in Uganda.  P. Mukundan's company Servals did the production design work for the stainless steel Champion TLUD at its own expense.  The more-then-40,000 Champion TLUDs in West Bengal have had zero public funding, and we thank atmosfair (German private carbon credit entity) for its investment.  I am not sure how much public funding Prof. Nurhuda received (probably not much, if any), but his stoves now sold via Prime are not supported by public money.  Maybe there are other cases, but not known to me.

What stoves are you considering as having been developed with considerable (total or %) public funds?   Let their stories be told, if relevant.
KCJ
Rocket
Envirofit
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Paul



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On 12/17/2017 1:06 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
Dear Nikhil

>>…we will continue to discover more because lab assessments are cheap and replicable and urgently needed. "

>This is one example of promising R&D you could propose in the C4D discussion; I will start there too.

Good idea. It is the right audience.

>…But why hasn't this been done in the past? I think it is because of this obsession with fuel efficiency and extraneous goals in the standard-setting exercise.

I don’t think so. The WBT was largely used by enthusiasts trying to invent the better mousetrap that would have the world beating a path to their door. After 30 years, that still hasn’t happened. Most of the popular improved stoves were developed on the public nickel, not by individuals with the possible exception of the Sarai Cooker which has several hundred producers. I think that was done privately.

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