[Stoves] News: GACC and CCAP launch "Urban Health and Short-Lived-Climate-Pollutants Reduction Project.”

Sat Jan 7 11:45:25 CST 2017

Paul,

You write:

PELLET FUEL is an answer to having proper fuel and great results.   And the economic viability of pellet fuel has been established for at least some meaningfully sized markets, and more markets are coming.Thanks

frank:

Thanks Paul - you make my point! The pellets you refer to is US standardized for shape, energy, ash, breakage, moisture etc. etc. The pellet industry has all the methods and requirements for their rating system. But pellets can be made of chicken manure, char, waste paper,  and lots of stuff and I think you will agree these may not work in your stove? Therefore we need to have our own standard tests for fitting the biomass to the stove - whatever it is. Know what we are looking for, develop appropriate procedures and find the limits for a stove. 

Making pellets from wood that passes the Pellet industry standards then making a series of pellets with increasing waste paper until100% paper and find the optimum and range your stove will take - is one such experiment that should be done. How to measure results: perhaps emissions and/or WBT - suggestions anyone?

Frank
Frank Shields
Gabilan Laboratory
Keith Day Company, Inc.
1091 Madison Lane
Salinas, CA  93907
(831) 246-0417 cell
(831) 771-0126 office
fShields at keithdaycompany.com

franke at cruzio.com

> On Jan 7, 2017, at 9:09 AM, Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Frank,
> 
> Thank you for the kind words.   Yes, wood can be a clean fuel, meaning that it can be quite cleanly burned (specifically referring to TLUD stoves).   
> 
> Fuel preparation for TLUD stoves is becoming much less of an issue, and is different in different areas.   Much depends on proper introduction of the TLUD stoves AND having sufficient numbers of users who are close to each other (attaining "critical mass" that stimulates local support efforts).   
> 
> Also to be included along with the Champion TLUD are the Mimi-Moto TLUD and the soon-to-be piloted FAABulous TLUD, both with forced air and using pellet fuel.   PELLET FUEL is an answer to having proper fuel and great results.   And the economic viability of pellet fuel has been established for at least some meaningfully sized markets, and more markets are coming.
> 
> And funding via carbon credits (as shown in the Deganga TLUD study) has potential for major impact, and eventually (I hope) to be supportive of the lab and appropriate testing that you mention.
> 
> Note:  These and other topics will be included in my SPECIAL SESSION at ETHOS this year.  (Saturday evening, full block of time.)  More details will be available soon.   One of the major topics is about TLUD stove potential for Haiti!!!   And also making electricity using the charcoal from TLUD stoves.
> 
> Frank, I hope you can make it to ETHOS this year.
> 
> Paul
> Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
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> On 1/7/2017 10:31 AM, Frank Shields wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jan 7, 2017, at 7:34 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <crispinpigott at outlook.com <mailto:crispinpigott at outlook.com>> wrote:
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>>> Dear Stovers
>>>  
>>> What on earth is a “clean fuel”?
>>>  
>>> Thanks
>>> Crispin
>> 
>> Its biomass uniformly prepared, sized and with proper combustion characteristics known suitable for a specific stove.  
>> 
>> We cannot complain about what other groups are doing with all the money allocated to them for improving biomass stoves and cleaner air until we give them a direction to go in. Not having a direction and complaining just goes in circles - as we have been doing for YEARS! The only direction (for now) is “What Preparation is Required for a Biomass to work in Paul’s Champion TLUD Stove?  And How Best is That Done?”
>> 
>> There is a big pile of biomass from a local community  - what do we need to know about it and how best to size it for the Champion? 
>> 
>> We need (1) an equipped PRIVATE  lab (no Universities) (2) creative personal (3) the stove (4) the biomass (5) money - and funders need to know this is research and not all research ends in grand success (as required by Universities). Ten steps backwards and one forward. The one’s forward add up over time.    
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>> Frank
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>>> From: Stoves [mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org <mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org>] On Behalf Of Traveller
>>> Sent: 7-Jan-17 09:24
>>> To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org <mailto:stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>>
>>> Subject: [Stoves] News: GACC and CCAP launch "Urban Health and Short-Lived-Climate-Pollutants Reduction Project.”
>>>  
>>> Alliance promotes climate and health co-benefits of cookstoves <http://cleancookstoves.org/about/news/12-20-2016-alliance-promotes-climate-and-health-co-benefits-of-cookstoves.html>, 20 December 2016.
>>> "To influence policy decisions of relevant ministries in Ghana, the Alliance is working with leading experts and partners, including Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, UrbanEmissions, and Dr. Ajay Pillarisetti to measure the burden of disease from household air pollution in Accra, the contribution of household energy consumption to ambient air pollution, and the potential reductions in exposure and resulting burden of disease due to a range of household energy interventions."
>>> 
>>> I suppose you all know the story of Chicken Little <http://www.worldstory.net/en/stories/chicken_little.html>. For that chicken, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!"
>>> 
>>> For our Global Alliance of Confident Chickens - it is "Look, look! I am carrying the sky over my head."
>>> 
>>> In its 2016 Progress Report <http://cleancookstoves.org/resources/reports/2016progress.html>, it boasts"Based on results reported by partners this year and careful analyses of the trends in available data, an estimated 20.6 million stoves and fuels were distributed in 2015, of which 13 million (63%) were clean and/or efficient." (See chart below). 
>>> 
>>> What did GACC have to do with it, and how did it cook up these numbers - total, "clean", "efficient"? I even wonder what "distributed" means and why the "Global Total Stove and Fuel Distribution" was supposedly close to zero in 2010 and is projected to rise to 300 million by 2020 [What kind of brainlessness does it take to imply "300 million fuel"?] 
>>>  
>>> For Ghana, it says "Ghana has seen steady advancement in transforming the cookstoves and fuels sector in 2016. As part of the government’s efforts to reduce deforestation and provide a cleaner cooking fuel, Ghana’s Petroleum Minister Hon. Emmanuel Buah launched a program to provide households with cooking gas connections. The program has distributed 70,000 LPG cylinders to families across six regions."
>>> 
>>> WHOA!! Ghana started LPG production in 1981 and had 600,000 LPG cylinders in 1997 <https://www.esmap.org/sites/esmap.org/files/Rpt_Ghanalpgquayefoli.pdf> already. What if anything did GACC have to do with these 70,000 cylinders? (Give GACC CEO - potentate - credit for giving no credit in the Progress Report to any other GACC staff. Did she hire them?)   
>>> 
>>> Now Ghana is going to have the world's largest LPG-fired power plant <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-25/ge-venture-to-build-world-s-largest-lpg-power-plant-in-ghana>. Credit to GACC? 
>>> 
>>> Is GACC a marketer for BAMG and vice versa? These two private organizations are gallivanting around the world to drum up more money for themselves. All in the name of the poor and without a mandate or competence. 
>>>   
>>> Any pretense that some HAPIT modeling will show enough "health co-benefits" to "influence policy decisions of relevant ministries in Ghana" betrays utter ignorance of last 100 years' history of shifting cooking to gas and electricity, in and outside the homes. 
>>>  
>>> Nobody has to date published any quantified claims of health benefits of modern energy transitions in the rich countries over that period. 
>>> 
>>> But somehow it is only the poor who need expert lecturing - and well-baked models - to be convinced, of "potential" reductions in the burden of disease. 
>>> 
>>> What is the baseline for the burden of disease? Under what assumptions? How long will this charade go on? 
>>> 
>>> And why is GACC babbling "a range of household energy interventions" in Accra when, from whatever I can tell, all it can take credit for in Ghana is on gas. 
>>> 
>>> Why don't we call it Global Alliance for Gas [GAG]?
>>> 
>>> Because it is a one-person radio of the Global Alliance for Boast [GAB]? 
>>> 
>>> For all her appearances, is GACC a one-woman show? 
>>> 
>>> Well, Hillary is another one. Though now she is said to be mulling NYC mayorship <http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/opinion/sunday/rumors-of-hillary-clintons-comeback.html>. 
>>> 
>>> There is plenty of PM2.5 in NYC. SO2 levels have declined <https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/environmental/comm-air-survey-08-14.pdf> recently but PM2.5 levels still remain high near boilers. The queens of Chappaqua and Washington can partner with Trump Organization to replace all the boilers with electricity - solar and wind - or build new real estate. Win, Win, Win!! Goldman Sachs is drooling.  
>>> 
>>> Nikhil
>>> 
>>> PS: I like the idea of SLCP reduction; wrote a concept note back in 2005.Ghana became one of the pioneering members of something called clean air and climate coalition (or some other mixture of these words), started by or under the leadership of Hillary circa 2011. Jerry Brown has signed in an SLCP law. GACC and BAMG are probably looking to monetize health and climate benefits from every gas stove for individual customers and take a middleman's cut. Poverty mixed with ignorance and absence of laws is a gold mine. 
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>>> Source: GACC
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