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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Dear Bjarne<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span lang=EN-US>I therefore find it unfair that the</span> Mwoto gasification stove <span lang=EN-US>get such negative review.</span>”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>It may be reasonable to think of it not as a negative review of the stove, but a negative review of the fit between the stove and that particular community, approached in that manner. We can’t tell much about the stove from the report.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Because I don’t believe a <i>single</i> claim about a stove’s performance unless I know how it was tested, we are still in the dark as to what the product can do. I would be happy to receive a copy of any test report you have to check it out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I try to keep test methods and implementation rules open enough for an imaginative stove producer to sell something really different, if they have a chance to put their case clearly. By that I mean the methods of testing should be realistic so there is an understanding of how things should go in the field, and also to try not to limit telling people what they can’t sell. People buy and use a lot of funny things.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The TLUD is a special case for most people because it is so different in fuel and operation. It is very likely that most people will not adopt it unless the local cooking habits just happen to coincide with the power and duration of that version of the technology. That could be ‘never’ in some communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Although I have not heard of anyone developing this at the moment, there is a lot to be gained from creating crossdraft stoves instead of TLUD’s. The fuel is the same, the performance is the same, but they can be refuelled forever and they can be controlled better, de-ashed, and sized to suit. Most of the TLUD’s try to burn a gas volume in a diameter equal to the fuel cylinder. That is a cause of difficulty right away as it is hard to turn down such a device and maintain the flame. That sort of thing…we should perhaps branch out a bit into crossdraft technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Stove promotion should always be preceded by stove anthropology.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Crispin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I agree very much with Crispin and AJH that social acceptability is one of the most important aspect of getting ICS to work in practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US>However I have some reservations about the SNV test in Cameroon. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US>We know that requirements towards stoves differs very much from area to area. When test are done by taking different stoves from different countries and testing these stoves without modifications so these stoves meet the requirements of the area of testing, as seems to be the case in this testing. Then these stoves will likely fall short of requirements. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US>This will especially be the case of batch stoves like gasification stoves that often have special requirements for fuel. If cooking time in the new area are different from what the batch stove can provide, then there will be problems. It is therefore important that stoves is modified and adapted towards the requirements of the area before it is tested.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I therefore find it unfair that the</span> Mwoto gasification stove <span lang=EN-US>get such negative review.</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US>We also know that it takes time for households and cooks to get used to new stoves and cooking method. So by only allowing test households one week to test a stove and even asking the same households to test 5 different stoves for one week each. For me such testing procedure seems likely to give some bias in the testing process.</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0mm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US>Bjarne Laustsen</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>