<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Lists: cc Jim<br><br> 1. This is to announce a new important stove paper that comes out tomorrow (May 3rd). It is sponsored, so NOT behind a pay wall. Here is the URL:<br> http://pubs.acs.org/doi/ipdf/10.1021/es304942e<br><br> <u><b>Cleaner Cooking Solutions to Achieve Health, Climate, and Economic Cobenefits</b></u><br>Susan C. Anenberg,*,†,‡ Kalpana Balakrishnan,§ <u><b>James Jetter,∥</b></u> Omar Masera,⊥ Sumi Mehta,¶<br>Jacob Moss,†,‡ and Veerabhadran Ramanathan#<br><br>†U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, United States<br>‡Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, United States<br>§Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India<br><u><b>∥Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States</b></u><br>⊥Center for Ecosystem Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Morelia, Mexico<br>¶Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, Washington, DC, United States<br>#Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, California, United States<br><br> 2. This 9-pager does a nice job of explaining the problem and the rapidly growing programs to improve stoves. I didn't find anything to complain about. There are 67 references - and I now need to review many of them.<br><br> 3. What I am unhappy about is that there is essentially no technical discussion of the options, and none (AT ALL) on the potential of char-making stoves - which I claim offer the best hope of achieving the three goals of the title: <u><b> Health, Climate, and Economic Cobenefits<br><br></b></u><b> </b> 4. The word "charcoal" appears three times, never in the context of making it. "Biochar" appears once (Table 3 - in a long list). "Soil" doesn't appear once. <br> Here is a sentence (bottom left on page 4 or D) showing that biochar is not adequately on this group's radar: <br> <b> <i>"When methane and carbon dioxide are accounted for, the long-term climate effect of residential solid fuel use is strongly warming."<br></i></b><b> </b>There is no qualifier about biochar being a contender (my claim would be the <u>leading</u> contender) in the world of CDR (Carbon Dioxide Removal) geoengneering (or mitigation) technologies. Conversely, there is plenty of discussion of char-making stoves and biochar on the stove, biochar, and geoengineering lists. It is not that there is nothing to find about the stove-biochar connection in these three bodies of literature<br><br> 5. Maybe one saving grace is that the article obviously had to be written many months ago.<br><br> 6. Any thoughts on how to bring char-making stoves to a state of greater awareness?. What have we been doing wrong?<br><br> 7. I repeat - there are a lot of good features of this article, and good news within it. I am just sad that this paper doesn't recognize that char-making stoves have the potential to greatly accelerate what they obviously hope strongly to achieve. We are on the same side.<br><br>Ron<br></div></body></html>