[Stoves] Off-topic re: floods

[Nikhil Desai]

Samer:

Look at this WSJ story on wine after Houston floods - How Wine Sustains Us
Through Tragedy and Reclaims Joy
<https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-wine-sustains-us-through-tragedy-and-reclaims-joy-1507219203?tesla=y>,
Lettie Teague, 5 October 2017.

Reminds me of a tale I heard from the bartender at Antoine's, the famous
French restaurant (oldest family restaurant in the US) in the French
Quarter of New Orleans. When Katrina struck, the wine cellar was flooded.
The insurance company declared all the wine as a loss, but took the bottles
home.  Must have been worth at least a couple of million dollars.

I estimate the market for home cooking of alcohols - araki, arak, banana
beer, and all that - with solid fuels at roughly 20 million home
enterprises and at 20 mtoe per year.

Nikhil





On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 5:59 AM, Samer Abdelnour <samer.abdelnour at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Given the push to deliver cookstoves in-post disaster situations (e.g.
> Haiti), I am surprised I have not read much about delivering stoves to
> Puerto Rico given widespread electricity outage?
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