[Stoves] May News: Registration open for Clean Cooking Forum, Spark+ accepting applications, & more...

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Dear Philip

Is there any evidence for other fuels, and stoves of the base superior kind?

I fear that ethanol cooking is a similar risk because there are so many crummy ethanol combustors, particular ethanol gel stoves. ‎Nothing is 'automatically clean'.

Chemical pneumonia from evaporated paraffin (stoves that overheat the fuel in the tank) is well known and if the current standard SANS1906 is adhered to, controllable.

For those not familiar with the risk, poor combustion of paraffin can directly cause ill health but the greater risk is overheating the fuel and evaporating it directly into the room.

Where people use a paraffin wick stove for space heating, the difference between a good and bad stove is very clear. A well designed stove emits very little other than CO2 and water vapour.

Regards
Crispin

“the leading cause of death for younger adolescent girls aged 10–14 years is lower respiratory infections, such as pneumonia – often a result of household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels.” [Emphasis added]

We have some fairly solid evidence that respiratory infections were endemic in households cooking and heating on kerosene-fuelled wick stoves; and of minimal similar health effects when clean stoves were fuelled with solid fuel (wood).

I think it is time for the GACC to recognize that it is the fuel/stove combination that leads to indoor air pollution, not just the fuel.

Prof Philip Lloyd
Energy Institute, CPUT
SARETEC, Sachs Circle
Bellville
Tel 021 959 4323
Cell 083 441 5247
PA Nadia 021 959 4330

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Dear Friends,

Registration is now open for the Clean Cooking Forum 2017, a landmark, bi-annual gathering of people working to accelerate the production, deployment, and use of cleaner, more efficient cookstoves and fuels. Under the theme “Driving demand. Delivering impact.” the Forum will feature influential speakers, engaging learning sessions, and myriad opportunities to build new partnerships and strengthen your work. I look forward to seeing many of you in New Delhi in October.

This month, the World Health Organization released a report on global adolescent health<http://www.globalproblems-globalsolutions.org/site/R?i=GtcqG5yqhPgvNv-p1y6nuw> that showed the leading cause of death for younger adolescent girls aged 10–14 years is lower respiratory infections, such as pneumonia – often a result of household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels. As part of efforts to build the evidence base around the health effects of clean cooking, the Alliance last week hosted investigators from six countries working to inform the shape of the integrated exposure response curve for household air pollution and childhood pneumonia. The Alliance and its partners are working to ensure that, as health research on cookstoves and fuels evolves, global research methodologies evolve with it.

Our work continues,
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