[Stoves] stoves and credits again

[Nikhil Desai]

Ron:

What makes you believe that users of biomass-fuelled stoves are
predominantly growers (of biomass)?

Saw the figures for urban charcoal markets in Sub-Saharan Africa lately? Or
looked at non-household cooking (in my view roughly 50% of cooking energy
consumption worldwide)?

Nikhil

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Ronal W. Larson <rongretlarson at comcast.net
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> Andrew and list:
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> There appears to be a win win situation here and I gather there is
> still a vast part of equatorial Africa where annual burning  takes
> place. However it brings me to another reason I like the idea, though
> not the practicalities, of a householder-subsistance farmer being paid
> a subsidy funded by the developed world. The trouble is I have a
> parochial view and not a good worldview of what types of persons
> depend on biomass fuelled stoves. Are they also predominantly growers?
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> *[RWL9:  Yes to Andrew’s last question.  I disagree with Andrew calling
> himself “parochial” - when he supports (as do I) the ethics of “a subsidy
> funded by the developed world”.*
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> *[RWL10:   Agree totally.  And I think this is what will eventually kill
> the geoengineering technology that is often placed ahead of biochar -
> BECCS.  In BECCS, as with “clean coal”, the CO2 from combustion (never
> pyrolysis) is placed, as  liquid, deep underground.   Major expenses needed
> to protect the world’s soil are not needed for biochar.  Soil quality is
> closely linked to carbon content - and biochar does this with no penalty -
> while apparently being the cleanest and most efficient of all possible
> solid-fuel stoves.*
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> *`Andrew - thanks for your above rebuttal to Crispin.*
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> *Ron*
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