[Stoves] Declaration about Woodgas

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Paul

I appreciate that you are on the right track.

I know it is not absolute in the same manner, but could you say, "Woodgas can be a clean fuel too"?

I am concerned that you correct say in the beginning that no fuel is clean on its own, an opinion shared widely, because it depends on how you burn it.

Then it says further down that woodgas is a clean fuel, without the qualification contained in the earlier statement.

Would you be better off saying something that undermines the incorrect notion that 'there are clean fuels and dirty fuels' and reinforces what is true: that ways and means exist to burn fuels cleanly and they should be used.

I am not all that happy with "Woodgas can be a clean fuel too" because without context it is basically bandwagonning behind a dead horse. Like the WBT low power metrics, it has to be dragged off to the glue factory.

No fuel is inherently clean by all definitions. Not even woodgas. How far can you take on the problem of the misrepresentation of scientific truth, while still pointing out that woodgas can be created and burned very cleanly, by any definition?

I guarantee that those intending to profit from the misrepresentation will not help you. This is Big Gas against Big Oil. Perhaps you need to create Big Wood and straighten both of them out.

Regards
Crispin



-----Original Message-----
From: Stoves [mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Paul Anderson
Sent: 19-Oct-17 22:16
To: Doc Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu>
Subject: [Stoves] Declaration about Woodgas

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

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