[Stoves] News: NASA cookstoves article.

[Cookswell Jikos]

On a separate note, did you see this;

'Cleaning Up Cookstoves.....

'....Such efforts may get a boost from a new study
<http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/01/17/1612430114.abstract> that
suggests how to target clean cookstove programs most effectively. “Many
programs simply target countries with large numbers of traditional
cookstoves,” said University of Colorado researcher Forrest Lacey, the lead
author of the study. “Our goal was to use quantitative tools and modeling
to look carefully at the environmental conditions and meteorology around
the world to better understand where reducing cookstove pollution would
have the biggest impact on both human health and the climate.”

Lacey and colleagues developed a model that merged demographics and
population data, emissions inventories, meteorological conditions, and
satellite-based observations of haze. Their modeling effort looked at how
reductions in cookstove pollution would evolve over the next hundred years.

They found that eliminating cookstove emissions over a 20-year period would
prevent 10.5 million premature deaths and would help offset global warming
slightly. However, they also found that targeting the countries with the
most cookstoves and the most solid fuel burned was not always the most
effective approach. In fact, when measured by benefits accrued per
cookstove eliminated, changes in smaller countries had some outsized
effects.

For instance, reducing pollution in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Uzbekistan, and Ukraine would yield outsized climate benefits because winds
often blow soot from these countries onto Arctic ice or snow-covered
mountains, where the climate effects are amplified
<http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/PaintedGlaciers/page1.php>
......''





*http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=89609&src=twitter-iotd
<http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=89609&src=twitter-iotd> *


I wonder if this knowledge could also be used for increasing forest cover
in the right locations to help clean up the air as well ;)

Teddy
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