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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Dear Friends<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>There is a tour presently underway of the SeTAR Centre at the University of Johannesburg hosting 6 visitors from Mongolia. They are all involved in the clean air activities there, including some from the clean stove programme. About 120,000 stoves have been sold (highly subsidised) in Ulaanbaatar which is about 3/4 of the total used in gers (yurts) in the city. So far we have had 4 seminars with a dozen speakers highlighting different aspects of product development, regulation, performance testing, policy and marketing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><img width=497 height=308 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image002.png@01CEF1D8.28BFEE20"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> In the photo is (blue with polka dots) an Enerkey Megacities Project researcher of biogas policy (which is in part housed at SeTAR), (white hat) stove anthropologist Cecil Cook and (back right with glasses) Principle Science Officer of the SeTAR Centre, Prof Harold Annegarn. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The SeTAR Centre also has a bio-waste to vehicle fuel project, sustainable human settlements programme for low cost housing, energy policy initiatives with the Human Sciences Research Council advising the Department of Science and Technology plus of course the stove development and testing programme. SeTAR is a GACC regional stove testing centre. The tour, organised by the World Bank in Asia, is part of the training activities of the regional centre. Ulaanbaatar (UB) as a copy of the laboratory but not a stove design and prototyping centre which is here, housed in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture building. The UB stove design centre will start in early 2014 and will include domestic cooking and space heating for gers, as well as low pressure boilers for space heating in small homes with ‘heating walls’ and small water circulations systems.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The photo above was taken in a low income informal urban settlement called Alexandra which is in NE Johannesburg. Though not large in extent it has a population of about 1 million. Stoves are usually primitive, wood-burning and smoky. Other fuels used are paraffin for cooking and lighting, candles and some electricity which is available to some residents. I saw today a methanol stove which is being touted as an alternative fuel but the local NGO says the fuel and packaging is way too dangerous be to allow into the wild. Interesting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Several wood-selling shops were seen and there is considerable biomass available for sale. Joe Baleka (light blue shirt) assisted ProBEC and the then nascent SeTAR Centre to test market StoveTec products in this township for which Aprovecho received an Ashden Award.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Crispin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Packing crate fuel at an informal food vendor's 'shop'<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><img width=453 height=337 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image006.jpg@01CEF1D8.C6E59E10"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Cooking in the open under power transmission lines:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><img width=567 height=246 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image007.jpg@01CEF1D8.C6E59E10"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Note the 6-brick stoves! Of a different type…<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>