[Stoves] Recognition of clean renewable solid fuels for cooking

Fri Sep 29 12:28:23 CDT 2017

*Recognize Clean Cooking with Renewable Solid Fuels 2017-09-29*

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from Paul Anderson to the Stoves Listserv, and beyond via forwarding.

  Subject:Recognition of clean renewable solid fuels for cooking

Dear Stovers,    29 Sept 2017

(Sorry for the length, but this is the starting point of a major issue 
to be addressed.  The exact same content is attached in Word .docx 
format for ease of forwarding.)

We need to deliver *a message to the world* that any discussion of 
access to clean fuel sources for cooking MUST include recognition that 
renewable solid fuels (mainly wood / pellet / chips, but including some 
forms of agro-refuse) are also highly clean burning in modern advanced 
cookstoves.  So, the topic is correctly stated as "clean cookstoves and 
fuels", but it is often reduced to be only "clean fuels," which is very 
misleading.

There are no clean fuels.   Stand next to a leaking LPG or biogas tank.  
It not only stinks, it is extremely dangerous.
There are only clean COMBINATIONS of stoves and fuels.  And such 
combinations exist for wood / dry solid biomass as well as for other fuels.

1.  Note:  Coal is excluded from this discussion because it is fossil / 
non-renewable.   Let advocates for coal handle that topic separately, 
especially because (most) residential coal burning is where space 
heating is also needed.

2.  The specific stoves that do cleanly burn solid dry biomass are those 
classified as "Woodgas from Biomass" stoves.  These are TLUD stoves and 
also other micro-gasifier stoves (high turbulance "fan-jet" stoves).    
See the classification table at: 
www.drtlud.com/2017/04/11/classification-stove-technologies-fuels/ 
<http://www.drtlud.com/2017/04/11/classification-stove-technologies-fuels/>
More on this later.

3.  Please consider the recently circulated article about comments by
Rachel Kyte, CEO of Sustainable Energy for All and special 
representative of the United Nations secretary-general for sustainable 
energy for all.

(available at: Clean cookstove market needs 'wholesale reappraisa  ) 
<https://www.devex.com/news/clean-cookstove-market-needs-wholesale-reappraisal-rachel-kyte-91045>
Andrew has pointed out that "she seems to be steering the discussion to 
one of promoting "access to clean fuel sources"

How can she, a prominent and supposedly well informed person, be so 
uninformed about the abilities of modern advanced cookstoves that use 
wood and other dry biomass?    She needs to be better informed.

4.  Others world-leading experts are great advocates of "clean 
cookstoves and fuels" but do not mention renewable dry biomass (wood) in 
the list with LPG, electricity, solar, biogas and alcohol fuels. Some of 
them, including Kirk Smith, are well aware that microgasifier stoves can 
be very clean burning, but somehow they do not state that message 
clearly enough to generate interest in those stoves.  Smith wrote in 
recent months of the need and challenge for having some biomass-burning 
stoves to reach the many millions of households that are acknowledged as 
being beyond the physical and financial reach of LPG, but he did not 
recognize that such stoves already exist (and can be getting even better).

5.  COMING EVENT:  On Monday afternoon, 23 October 2017, at the GACC 
Forum in Delhi, will be this session with these 4 speakers
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Kavanaugh Livingston 
<http://www.cleancooking2017.org/speaker/kavanaugh-livingston/>

Betty Ikalany <http://www.cleancooking2017.org/speaker/betty-ikalany/>

Asna Towfiq <http://www.cleancooking2017.org/speaker/asna-towfiq/>

Dean Still <http://www.cleancooking2017.org/speaker/dean-still/>

*Cooking 101 – For Those New to the Sector 
<http://www.cleancooking2017.org/session/cooking-101-new-sector/>*

Open to both new and experienced partners, Cooking 101 will provide a 
broad overview of the clean cooking sector’s efforts to build a 
healthier, more sustainable market. This session will discuss the 
Alliance’s market-based model, critical sector opportunities and 
challenges, progress to date on building the evidence-base, and 
highlight innovative partners and models to strengthen and scale clean 
cooking impacts. Participants are encouraged to come with questions 
regarding the sector, the Alliance’s model, and strategies to continue 
strengthening the global clean cooking sector.

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  We need to be sure that these presenters properly acknowledge "clean 
fuels" as including wood.  Certainly Dean Still and Kavanaugh Livingston 
of the GACC should present this message clearly.

Previously Kirk Smith was listed as a presenter.  He will be at the 
Forum and will have his own opportunity to properly recognize that wood 
and other dry biomass should be considered as clean fuels, and 
specifically name the micro-gasifier “woodgas-burning” stoves.  He is a 
panelist on Wednesday 25 Oct about the topic:

*Transition Scenarios: Moving Toward Clean Cookstoves and Fuels by 2030 
<http://www.cleancooking2017.org/session/transition-scenarios-moving-toward-clean-cookstoves-fuels/>*

Those of us who will be in the Forum audiences will be listening for 
such statements from any and all presenters / panelists, and will be 
challenging incomplete comments or the lack of adequate statements.

6.  About the Classification of stoves and fuels, (Item #2 above): Yes, 
I formatted that table with 10 columns of content.   But the CONTENT is 
faithful to the cited classification that came from ESMAP (of the World 
Bank) and the GACC (Global Alliance).  My 2-page and 4-page explanatory 
comments explain why and how I reformed the ESMAP/GACC table. Feel free 
to disagree with me, but be aware that you will also be disagreeing with 
ESMAP / GACC.   But if you can find yourself in agreement with the 
presented Classification, please tell others and please start referring 
to the table (that can be freely copied and distributed.)

We can hope that anyone who works for the GACC or ESMAP will utilize 
this classification of stoves technologies and fuels to make their 
presentations about which combinations of stoves and fuels are in the 
"Modern Advanced Clean Cooking Solutions" (with the nice acronym  of 
"MACCS")

7.  What next????
a.  Discussion will be at the Stoves Listserv.  (If comments are sent 
directly to me at   psanders at ilstu.edu  , I might post them with your 
name attached.)

b.  Who will help carry this message forward?   Please speak up.  Some 
assistance is needed.

c.  To whom should this message be sent (as is or improved):   One 
person is Sophie Edwards <https://www.devex.com/news/authors/1253453> 
the journalist who wrote the 18 September 2017 item about Rachel 
Kyte..    And also send to Rachel Kyte.

d.  Perhaps a "Declaration of Clean Cooking with Wood" could be 
prepared, and presented for endorsement / adoption by organizations and 
persons.  (Suggest a better name??)

e. Whatever is next, we need to utilize the format and facilities of the 
GACC, including the Forum in Delhi.  This is what the GACC is 
all about:With emphasis on the word CLEAN, we are all seeking to have 
clean cookstoves reaching even those people who only have biomass fuels 
for daily cooking.  And this can be done with existing methods, etc., 
that will be further improved with the feedback from the woodgas stove 
users.

Paul

Doc/Dr TLUD/Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD

Email:psanders at ilstu.edu

Skype:paultludPhone: +1-309-452-7072

Website:www.drtlud.com

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