<div dir="ltr"><div>Crispin,<br><br></div>You wrote: <i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">If
you have some feedback from real gardens it will communicate a lot. The
viability of cooking while making char pivots on two things: the
conversion of fuel to char without increasing the raw fuel demand, and
the rate of positive return on char placed in the soil. The data that
addresses these issues is of great interest to me.</span></i><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you are looking for more data on the benefits of incorporating biochar into the soil, please take a look at this:<br>
<a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22013094/Biochar/slideshow.biochar.130528.pdf">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22013094/Biochar/slideshow.biochar.130528.pdf</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">Thanks.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Paul Olivier<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@gmail.com" target="_blank">crispinpigott@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-CA"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Dear Art<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">I appreciate the effort you put into the project and the report. One of the things that has been difficult to estimate is the time it would take to generate an ‘improved garden’ (or farm) using char from the area upon which the garden sits. The point is that to do something at scale, on the scale of hundreds of square miles, would mean generating the char on that same land.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">If you have some feedback from real gardens it will communicate a lot. The viability of cooking while making char pivots on two things: the conversion of fuel to char without increasing the raw fuel demand, and the rate of positive return on char placed in the soil. The data that addresses these issues is of great interest to me.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div class="im"><p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">></span>We are getting back two "complaints": lack of a longevity and a better multiple pot cook-top option. <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">That is valuable marketing information. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div><div class="im"><p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">></span>These stoves will allow us to gain entry into the much larger urban and peri-urban markets where people are sliding back down the "fuel ladder" due to rising energy costs.<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">We have noticed that in Indonesia there is a sensitivity to LPG fuel cost. It is rises slightly a percentage of people go to wood 100% instead of 40%. The income group they are in is not the bottom of the pyramid, just low.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Regards<span class=""><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
<span class=""><font color="#888888"><p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Crispin<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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