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

[Michael N Trevor]

Have you ever tried to step over people, find the matches, find the
lantern,  open it and light it in total darkness.
Fortunately many now have solar flick the switch.


On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Nikhil Desai <pienergy2008 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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