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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thank you for these comments.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Anil has done great work over many years
with his research and development on ethanol stoves, sorghum, distillation
units and how to develop ethanol stoves and small scale ethanol production for
stoves in India and elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Anil—how many of your stoves are
being produced for the Asian market and do you know where they are going?
I am aware of another ethanol stove in Indonesia called the Kombi stove.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We know the regulatory constraints in
India, which really do have to get resolved to open up the opportunity for
small scale ethanol in India for fuel use. Anil—have you been
successful, despite the constraints, in disseminating your stove in India?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Having a rough idea of stove dissemination
numbers and locations where ethanol stoves are being used would be most
helpful. Also, knowing where ethanol fuel is successfully getting into
the market for stove fuel and how this is being done would be equally valuable
to know. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Harry<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a href="mailto:hstokes@projectgaia.com">hstokes@projectgaia.com</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>P.S. Lloyd, we continue to be very
interested in Agave as a feedstock. Thank you for the invitation to Arturo by
email. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> nari phaltan
[mailto:nariphaltan@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, August 11, 2012
12:37 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Discussion of biomass cooking
stoves<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> hstokes@projectgaia.com; ARTURO
VELEZ<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Stoves] Combining
stoves, bioliquidfuels, and Biochar - Possible for all together?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color="#333399" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333399;font-weight:bold'>Dear
Stovers,</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color="#333399" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333399;font-weight:bold'>Just
to keep the record straight, we have been working on ethanol lanterns and
stoves since 1980s. Stovers might be interested in the following publications.</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color="#333399" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333399;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.nariphaltan.org/ruralethanol.pdf">www.nariphaltan.org/ruralethanol.pdf</a></span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color="#333399" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333399;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.nariphaltan.org/sorghum.pdf">www.nariphaltan.org/sorghum.pdf</a></span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color="#333399" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333399;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.nariphaltan.org/housenergy.htm">www.nariphaltan.org/housenergy.htm</a></span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color="#333399" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333399;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.nariphaltan.org/lanstove.pdf">www.nariphaltan.org/lanstove.pdf</a></span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color="#333399" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333399;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.nariphaltan.org/ethstove.pdf">www.nariphaltan.org/ethstove.pdf</a>
This stove is being produced on large scale in Indonesia for sales in
ASEAN countries.</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color="#333399" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333399;font-weight:bold'>Cheers.</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=3 color="#333399"
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333399;
font-weight:bold'>Anil</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Lloyd Helferty <<a
href="mailto:lhelferty@sympatico.ca" target="_blank">lhelferty@sympatico.ca</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Ron,<br>
<br>
I have also corresponded quite extensively with Mr. Harry Stokes a
couple of years ago at about the time I was supporting Nathaniel Mulcahy and
his initial Stove project work in Haiti after the earthquake.<br>
<br>
Harry had noted at the time that 3 billion liters of hydrous ethanol are
traded through the Caribbean from Brazil every year, yet he had noted that
there are a number of major ethanol producers in Central America and the
Caribbean who are constrained to consistently under-produce because of the want
of a market.<br>
<br>
He noted that " <i><span style='font-style:italic'>If these
countries could produce and sell into a domestic stove fuel market, they could
again produce for a market that would justify a robust agricultural base.
With a healthy agricultural sector and the application of best practices, they
could rebuild their soils and croplands, which now lie fallow.</span></i>"<br>
(This was Harry's "Build Back Better" approach... as was being
promoted by Bill Clinton after the earthquake: a pathway to sustainability for
Haiti.)<br>
<br>
At the time I was also in conversation with Roger Samson of REAP Canada,
and I had suggested to Mr. Stokes that he <span style='background:yellow'>might
also wish to consider using Agave</span> was as the feedstock for producing
liquid fuels (ethanol etc), <span style='background:yellow'>which, according to
Arturo Velez, can produce 3X more sugars than sugarcane,</span> while thriving
on drylands / "marginal land" (it thrives with only 190mm of rain per
year and can produce very high yields with very low or no inputs) and could
potentially achieve massive production due to year-around harvesting and
World-wide geographical distribution (Drylands cover about 40% of the Earth's
surface; >60 million square Km, @ ~20% of US territory and >75% of
Mexico).<br>
[Harry had suggested Sweet sorghum instead since it is a dryland crop
that builds soil fertility very effectively. ~ I believe that he was also
working with the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA) and
looking into other 'dryland' feedstocks such as Giant Milkweed and Prosopis
(mesquite).]<br>
<br>
While Harry was working with a core team of developers to raise capital
for a business that would essentially mass produce small, efficient, simple but
highly engineered "micro distilleries" (for places like Haiti), I had
noted that the leftover "bagasse" from these distilleries could also
be used to make Biochar.<br>
<br>
I had originally suggested that the enormous amounts of bagasse that
result from the production of sustainable alcohols from drylands feedstocks
could be processed in such a way as to produce other liquid fuels (bio-oils)
industrially (in systems such as those produced by companies like Agritherm,
ABRI Tech or Ensyn) -- such that massive quantities of both bio-oil and Biochar
could be produced (and sequestered)... however, if CPB could also
convert this bagasse into another type of liquid fuel (the 'N100' that could in
turn be used in engines and other types of bio-liquid fuel stoves), we could
truly achieve very substantial "carbon negativity".<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Principal, Biochar Consulting (Canada)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="http://www.biochar-consulting.ca" target="_blank">www.biochar-consulting.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> 48 Suncrest Blvd, Thornhill, ON, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="tel:905-707-8754" target="_blank" value="+19057078754">905-707-8754</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> CELL: <a
href="tel:647-886-8754" target="_blank" value="+16478868754">647-886-8754</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Skype: lloyd.helferty<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Steering Committee coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Canadian Biochar Initiative (CBI)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> President, Co-founder & CBI Liaison, Biochar-Ontario<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Partner of Toronto Urban Ag Summit! <a
href="http://www.urbanagsummit.org" target="_blank">www.urbanagsummit.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> See also: <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/UrbanAgSummit" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/UrbanAgSummit</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Manager, Biochar Offsets Group:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2446475" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2446475</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Advisory Committee Member, IBI<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1404717" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1404717</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42237506675" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42237506675</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="http://groups.google.com/group/biochar-ontario" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/biochar-ontario</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/biocharontario/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/biocharontario/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="http://www.biocharontario.ca" target="_blank">http://www.biocharontario.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="http://www.biochar.ca" target="_blank">www.biochar.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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On 2012-08-10 5:24 PM, <a href="mailto:rongretlarson@comcast.net"
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1. A short time ago, I sent in a brief
announcement (below) about Harry Stokes. Without committing him, I
think he supports the following as a new way to obtain and promote this list's
emphasis: improved biomass stoves for developing countries.<br>
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2. The following idea naturally follows from last
week's successful Biochar conference in Sonoma. This conference has been
discussed some on the sister Biochar lists, but not here, although there were
several persons presenting there on stoves. Presumably most stoves list
members interested in Biochar already know all about that other list - but for
others, I recommend a look at this site (save it - it doesn't pop up in
Google searches)<br>
<a
href="http://2012.biochar.us.com/299/2012-us-biochar-conference-presentations"
target="_blank">http://2012.biochar.us.com/299/2012-us-biochar-conference-presentations</a><br>
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3. For many at the conference, I think the most
important new Biochar material related to a new company, that had not presented
previously at Biochar meetings (probably because they are better known as a
biofuels company). But they advertise a fuel they call N100 - which
means 100 Percent as much carbon negativity as carbon neutrality. I
think the main buzz was because they are well funded by some very big players.
This and a bit more (I recommend the 14 minute video by corporate founder Mike
Cheiky) on the company (shorthand CPB) are at:<br>
<a href="http://www.coolplanetbiofuels.com"
target="_blank">www.coolplanetbiofuels.com</a><br>
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4. There was no discussion at the Sonoma meeting
nor is there any discussion at the CPB web site of using their biofuel product
for our list interest: rural biomass cookstoves. Emphasizing their
bioliquids also for stoves could be a big winner - along the lines of what Harry
Stokes has been doing. The big difference from Stokes' work is that char
and carbon negativity automatically follow with use of the CPB fuels -
not possible with any other bioliquidfuel I am aware of. I emphasize
"automatic" - the char is a left-over but can contain
half the initial carbon (30% char by weight is being stated).
Surprisingly, there is very little release of CO2 during production, and some
or much is exothermic.<br>
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5. The CPB website gives plenty of reasons they
can be successful - but none related to stoves. My reasons for thinking
that their's could be a successful approach for stove use are:<br>
a. The CPB biofuel is already being
planned to be produced in developing countries. Rather than importing
fossil kerosene, LPG, propane, etc with inevitably rising prices - the CPB
fuels will be least cost at the point of manufacture, near to the stove
users. Maybe even able to use a biofuel for cooking that is slightly
substandard for engines.<br>
b. Char-making stoves have many
positive attributes (that I have been promoting for 17 + years), but a
bioliquids fuel approach can probably always be cleaner, more adjustable
(turn-down ratio), be adaptable to multiple pots and will not be batch-limited.
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c. Char-making stoves will hopefully soon
be eligible for carbon credits, but dealing with small single family or even
village scale auditing violates all we know about existing credit
hurdles. A large entity (CPB or someone they sell equipment to) will
already be well equipped to work for carbon neutral credits; adding
carbon negative credits from their co-product Biochar will be easier than for
any other industry group I can think of.<br>
d. Cooks in developing countries are
already choosing liquid fuel stoves - when they can be afforded. There
are existing supply chains for fuel and stoves. LPG fuels are already in
short supply.<br>
e. I think it possible for the barter
system that Nat Mulcahy (WorldStoves) has developed to also work here. A
wood gatherer can exchange the raw materials for a bioliquid - and (a guess?)
do less wood gathering than at present. This time savings will be
complemented by time savings while cooking with a liquid fuel. And
health issues. The same firm supplying the CPB carbon-negative biofuel
can also supply a (hopefully) low cost (and probably pre-primed) Biochar with
the same barter exchange of ag wastes, etc.<br>
f. Char-making stoves work best in a
rural environment. But the majority of potential users of any future
carbon negative biofuel are now living in cities - where the price competition
for a carbon negative form of cooking is easiest<br>
g. Lastly and most important to
me - I have argued strongly on this list for a total prohibition of
charcoal-using stoves because they are so wasteful. This approach could
help in policing the presently largely illegal production of char. Since
CPB will be precharging their char for ag purposes, it would be incredibly
stupid to burn that char. Char for ag use is likely to look more
different as well as just being too small for cooking.<br>
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6. What should be the impact of the above on other stove types
discussed on this list?<br>
a. I think this biofuels approach might help as a
backup for solar cookers. Biomass supply will always be insufficient if
we get serious about excess atmospheric carbon - so a combined solar-liquids
approach could be a least cost approach.<br>
b. Of course, I hope a biofuel stove kills all
use of fossil fuels for cooking or heating - because of my perceived need to
get quickly to 350 ppm. My hope would be that coal use in Ulan Bataa, for
instance, might prove to be more expensive than the use of wood from northern
Mongolia, since the biofuel being moved is so energy dense, easily stored, cleaner,
etc.<br>
The use of existing propane, natural gas, kerosene, etc
stoves will be killed only if the CPB fuels are cheaper - and this seems likely
eventually if not right now (according to the CPB website).<br>
c. I think liquid-fueled stoves are likely to prove
much better in all regards to all present wood-burning (including Rocket
stoves) re cost, air quality, efficiency, etc, if the assumptions above
hold (on time spent looking for fuel, etc). This needs more
analysis.<br>
d. Cooking using methane from biodigesters might be a
close call. Those stoves are not generating the char that I find so
important, but putting char in digesters for "conditioning" seems
very promising. The main difference could be in the perception of the
time being used each way.<br>
e. As to char-making stoves, the improvement is not so
obvious for rural cooks having plenty of wood, time, and need for char.
Regardless, it is better to have multiple options and there will be many
countries or parts of countries, that wouldn't see internal generation of a
carbon negative biofuel for a long time. A huge market therefore remains
for char-making stoves. And something may not be correct in this initial
review of what looks like a promising addition to our list topic - cooking with
biomass.<br>
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7. So this is to request your reaction to pushing this different way to
promote Biochar production and use in family cooking in developing
countries. I will forward your thoughts to CPB. There could
be companies formed around this idea and I hope there are. I won't be
doing so. For me, the basic question is whether more Biochar
might be put in the ground if cooking were done with liquids made from
biomass, rather than cooking with that same biomass in any other type of
stove. <br>
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Ron<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To: </span></b>"Discussion of
biomass" <a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank"><stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org></a><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc: </span></b><a
href="mailto:hstokes@projectgaia.com" target="_blank">hstokes@projectgaia.com</a><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent: </span></b>Friday, August 10, 2012
12:26:24 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject: </span></b>[Stoves] Award for Harry
Stokes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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For a different reason that I will write on soon, I was searching
some (excellent) stove material on Harry's web site, and found notice of his
winning a prestigious bioenergy 2012 award. See<br>
<a
href="http://www.projectgaia.com/blog/2012/06/06/pgi-executive-director-harry-stokes-selected-as-2012-world-bioenergy-award-winner/"
target="_blank">http://www.projectgaia.com/blog/2012/06/06/pgi-executive-director-harry-stokes-selected-as-2012-world-bioenergy-award-winner/</a><br>
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I first met Harry at the (first in 2000?) stove conference in
Pune, India. Harry's specialty - almost alone - is in pushing liquid fuels
(mostly ethanol and methanol) for cooking in developing countries. He is,
of course, emphasizing those fuels from biomass rather than fossil
sources. Look at his web site for some of the projects now underway.<br>
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Congratulations to a well-deserving winner. <br>
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Ron<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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