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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">You are right. One can not
separate stoves and fuel, it has to be seen in one though stoves are a one time
investment and fuel is an every day running costs. Another thing is that a good
stove can be burning clean with one type of fuel and give smoke soot and pitch
with an other type of fuel. We know how to make clean burning stoves but we
don’t know enough about how to produce biofuel to a price poor people can afford
to buy.. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">It is very important how this
task will be handled in the future, not to make more problems than we already
have for poor people on the household energy-sector.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have to take the increasing
unemployment into consideration, traditionally local tinsmiths have produced
light stoves, and mass-produced cheap stoves will spoil that market and probably
they will not fit to the natural available fuel. The charcoal business has the
infrastructure intact, and for them it is just to change from charcoal to some
alternative type of fuel. Everybody can produce biofuel, either collecting or by
growing, but some kind of treatment is necessary for clean burning stoves. There
are a lot of possibilities like energy-forestry and energy agriculture and
handled the right way, it could really create new jobs and reduce poverty,
improve the environment and health. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p>With regards Paal
Wendelbo <A href="mailto:paaw@onlone.no">paaw@onlone.no</A>
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