[Stoves] News 24 Jan 2017: Joint Research on air pollution of Mongolia

[Paul Anderson]

Nikhil, and all,

Thanks for your three recent valuable messages with comments about 
published articles that I would otherwise not have seen.    The articles 
show about China, India, Mongolia and their efforts at solutions.   
Electricity solution in China.

You wrote:
> World isn't going to wait around for "better biomass stoves".
>
Those "better biomass stoves" are already here.   These are the TLUD 
woodgas stoves.   I will be presenting this (with much explanation) at 
the ETHOS meeting on Saturday night.   And it will be reported to the 
Stoves Listserv as fast as possible.

Paul

Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
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On 1/25/2017 11:38 PM, Traveller wrote:
>
>
>   Joint Research on air pollution of Mongolia
>   <http://en.montsame.mn/society/8439>, Montsame, Ulanbataar
>
> Key sentence at the end: "Estimates of attributable mortality are 
> often misinterpreted as “avoidable” deaths, but it is more appropriate 
> to interpret these as estimates of “postponable” deaths (Brunekreef et 
> al. 2007)."
>
> Kirk Smith warned against the "natural urge" to consider 
> "attributable" as "avoidable".
>
> No reason to go gung-ho about aDALY nonsense.
>
> Besides, attribution does not imply causality in the medical sense; 
> "risk factor" is not a germ. This whole "Burden of Disease" is a 
> statistical jiggery-pokery of no relevance to a thoughtful air quality 
> management strategy as Harold could help us consider.
>
> True, "Air pollution represents a major threat to public health in 
> Ulaanbaatar, and reductions in home heating emissions should be the 
> primary focus of future air pollution control efforts". But that is 
> because the central heat and power plant's emissions have been reduced 
> dramatically.
>
> See also Mongolia’s New Approach To Curb Air Pollution – Analysis 
> <http://www.eurasiareview.com/16012017-mongolias-new-approach-to-curb-air-pollution-analysis/>. 
> Eurasia Review 15 Jan 2017.
>
> World isn't going to wait around for "better biomass stoves".
>
> Nikhil
>
>
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