[Stoves] Do "market-based", "results-based" distribution strategies get in the way of the poor.? (Taken from Re: GACC Webinar (that was, Paul, Ron))

[Paul Anderson]

On 9/10/2017 4:52 PM, Nikhil Desai wrote:
> Dear Paul:
>
> Thank you. It has to be more than "paying the bills". There has to be 
> a "smell of success"; as Oli of Eco-Zoom put it at the webinar, 35+% 
> gross profit margin.
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> If interested, there should be a thread on this "Challenge to Biomass 
> Stoves Community" by Kirk Smith. What will it take, short of 
> governments-driven highly subsidized distribution, to reach the 500 
> million? 
I have said, but not clearly enough, that the TLUD stoves are ready to 
take on this challenge.  The pilot project is discussed in the Deganga 
Case Study (at   www.drtlud.com/deganga2016  )  with 11,000 TLUD stoves 
in sustained mode utilizing earned carbon credits.   And there is 
already started a project with 40,000 TLUD stoves in 2017, with the 
credits already pre-sold, meaning that the capital is arranged for the 
placement of the stoves.

Now the question is to take this capability to the larger scale, but NOT 
based on PRE-sales of carbon credits.  I am working on this, but some 
paperwork is still pending.  Stay tuned.

Paul

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