[Stoves] Biomass stoves v. PV-induction cooking (re: Frank)

[Frank Shields]

My only point was that at the rate and direction we Stovers are heading the pv  people, no matter how many years, will likely solve the problem before we do regarding smoke. 
Frank

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> On Jan 27, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Ken Boak <ken.boak at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> List,
> 
> As someone who has worked with biomass gasification and village scale electricity generation - I would be very interested to hear how exactly rural electrification to the point of providing perhaps 2kW per household, to replace biomass stoves is going to work?
> 
> We are currently at the point where we could provide about 50W per household - so it would take a revolution in cooking appliance technology to achieve this.  However I believe that "slow cookers" are about 70-200W, and could be run throughout the day from a suitable sized pv panel. 
> 
> If, possiblly combined with pressure cooking, something could be achieved. But these modern techniques of cooking are so counter-cultural, that they would struggle to gain traction.
> 
> I'm at ETHOS this weekend if anyone wants to chat.
> 
> 
> Ken
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