[Stoves] Declaration about Woodgas

[Paul Anderson]

Stovers, Charists, and all,

I have prepared a "Declaration of Clean Cooking with Woodgas" for 
everyone's consideration.   A copy of the version as of today's date 
2017-10-19 is attached, or you can get it at 
https://woodgas.com/declaration/ where any revisions will be 
available.    Therefore, there is still time for your comments to be 
considered.   This is now available several days before the start of the 
2017 GACC Forum in Delhi, which I will be attending and will hear some 
feedback about this "Woodgas Declaration."

The bulk of the page has the justification statements:   "Whereas 
......."  (10 of them.)   And based on the truth of those statements, 
then comes the declarations:

"now, therefore be it
DECLARED ...... that:
1. there are no "clean fuels" per se, but they can be “clean” (by 
definitions that are subject to discussion) only when properly combusted 
in appropriate, specialized combustion devices (burners and stoves), and 
fuels by themselves are neither clean nor dirty;

2. woodgas is a clean fuel when appropriate micro-gasifiers with 
designated solid fuels are used by adequately-experienced cookstove users;

3. woodgas has the potential to reach hundreds of millions of households 
to provide cleaner cooking while using smaller quantities of their 
current, locally-available fuel supplies, and all with sustainable 
financing, reduced expenditures, and even potential net profit;

4. leaders, authorities and all parties interested in clean cookstoves 
should recognize in words, writings, actions and financial support that 
solid biomass can become a very clean-burning fuel for cooking in 
woodgas stoves for millions of households; and

5. the expression “Woodgas is a Clean Fuel” is more than a motto, and it 
should be a guiding principle for prompt actions to assist at least one 
billion of the most underserved people on Earth, this being a most 
worthy goal that also has realistic prospects for being accomplished 
with honorable expedience. "

Please participate in the discussions.   I start my trip to India early 
on Saturday, so please discuss without expecting me to make replies 
promptly.

Paul

-- 
Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu
Skype:   paultlud    Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website:  www.drtlud.com

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