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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body 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 Richard<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'>Glad to see that you are alive and kicking. Who is it this time?<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 have a solution for you: How about we consider if the real challenge is indoor air quality, or not. Let’s suppose it is, and nothing else matters (much). Let us also agree that CO2 is not a pollutant. We are talking about real pollution. So, what makes the air polluted in the home?<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'>Smoke. And what did our ancestors do when they wanted to get smoke out of the house so as not to breathe it in winder? They used chimneys. Brilliant. Put the pollution outdoors.<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'>Is that a problem? Sure it is, depending on where you live. In China in the cities, there are so many neighbours polluting the problem is not in your own kitchen. Observations in Ulaanbaatar show that the indoor air is quite a bit better than the outdoor air because it is filtered by the housing material (3-4 layers of felt). Amazing. <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'>So, why is it assumed that people are going to cook over fires that vent into the room? Can you see that thought inherent in the statement that people have to switch to gas or electricity? Why should someone on a rural farm in Zambia switch to LPG? Why not use a stove with a chimney and cook happily in the clear air?<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'>There are lots and lots of places where indoor air can be cleaned up considerably without improving combustion at all. Plus of course the combustion can be cleaned up a lot. Why not do both? Different strokes for different folks.<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'>Burning wet wood is a double or triple loss. It is heavier which means more work. It burns with less heat, and you have to bring more to do any particular task. Ouch. Does the stove have a place to put the wet wood so spare heat is drying it all the time it is in use? Why not? That is an essential function in your area. Where is the hood or chimney? In Indonesia wood is stored ‘up there’. Chimneys are sometimes short and have a wood shelf above the top for just this purpose.<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'>But the topic of the moment is clean indoor air. If the purpose is that, get the smoke out of the room first. Then we will talk about massive fuel switching and subsidies for corporations.<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><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Crispin, Paul et al, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>You offer a brilliant assessment of Kirks reportage, however;How likely is it that it will have any effect on the 90% of the stove users globally?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Our cuidador family / resident propery minders know how to make briquettes abd have seen improved stoves of sorts here but they continue to hack down wood (mostly fallen wood due to the much extended rainy season we are now seeing) and burn it wet and smoky as heck. What is it that will casue them to change regulation from the UN, the state the region --even their local government /alcaldea ? Dont think so. They like most others here are cash driven time is not so important as saving cash. Further , they will undertake/ adapt activities but mostly only in response to immediate needs ---that day maybe that week. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Our lofty ideal of reduced PM and biomass use have to be honed to this reality. We need nto worry about golbal state region even provincial policy regulations: As former pres. Clinton so aptly stated ( albeit in a very different cultural context) ; Its about the economy, stupid ! <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Make the better cheaper stove make the briquette to work in it or othersise but make it affordable. Let it last one year but make it easily replaceable,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>and easily affrodable: Aan color as long as its black…We can worry about the better more durable technical perfect model later.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The policy will follow.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mis dos centavos de Laguna de apoyo Nicaragua <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>