[Stoves] Village scale electricity generation (Re: Ken)

[Traveller]

Ken:

I suggest you take  your questions to the CEO of GACC whose legal title is
the Executive Director of UNF, Inc. The SE4All bandwagon of UNF is heavily
into village-scale electricity generation.

It doesn't have to be PV. It can be any local resource or diesel, LPG. I
have found both solar and diesel in remote islands of Vanuatu and villages
in South Asia or Africa. Money is the limiting factor.

Providing 50w per household will only ensure poor people stay poor. One
cannot hope to have transformative impact of electricity at such low levels
except via IEECTs - Information, Entertainment, Education, and
Communication Technology that is the smartphone or wi-fi connected tablet
(assuming investment of ~$100 and communication/storage expenses of minimum
~$10 a month are affordable).

I am not too sure what you mean by "counter-cultural". My late mother went
from wood to charcoal to kerosene to LPG to electricity, including
microwave, but stopped at induction. I even went to induction and cook most
of the things she used to make except breads. Read Kirk Smith's
presentations on Ecuador and to Paraguay, India.

Getting rich enough to afford and then to subsidize is not a bad goal.

Nikhil


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On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 1:14 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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