[Stoves] Poor indoor air quality caused by a stove kills 4 on Mt Everest

[Nikhil Desai]

Dr Karve:

Were the kerosene lamps kept on all night for safety?

Until 1966 or so, I frequently stayed in unelectrified villages for weeks
at a time. But I never noticed kerosene lamps being on all night. Then a
few years ago, wandering about in Pacific Islands, I saw that many people
kept kerosene lamps on all night. This was on islands where kerosene was
brought maybe once or twice a year at a cost of ~$3/liter. When I asked,
they said light kept animals away and kept adults from stepping on
children.

Nikhil

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On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Crispin,
> your post reminded me of a study that we conducted about 20 years ago in a
> village that did not have electricity. We had installed improved stoves
> with chimneys in that village and monitored the indoor air pollution in the
> house. During daytime, when the cooking was going on, the pollution level
> was quite low but in the night it rose. There were theories that the
> particulate matter that rose up with the hot air, settled down in the
> night, causing the high reading of the particulate matter in the night.
> Later we found out that the nocturnal air pollution was caused by the crude
> kerosene lamps (a bottle full of kerosene, with a wick stuck into the lid
> of the bottle) which were kept burning throughout the night.
> Yours
> A.D.Karve
>
> ***
> Dr. A.D. Karve
>
> Chairman, Samuchit Enviro Tech Pvt Ltd (www.samuchit.com)
>
> Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
>
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