<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>List: cc Prof. Nurhuda and Camilla Fulland</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. This is to encourage all stovers to read the nice story about the Indonesian firm “Kopernik”, with much about Prof. Nurhuda and his TLUD stove, and the firm “Prime Stoves”. I get the (free) print copy of “Boiling Point” (BP), but think you can get there through:</div><div><a href="http://www.hedon.info/BP:Latest Issue"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://www.hedon.info/BP:Latest%20Issue</a></div><div>Then you have to download - but maybe first sign up.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. One quote (emphasis added about being the <b><u>most popular</u></b> stove - the first time I have seen this for a TLUD):</div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"In their search for an appropriate
cookstove, Wojkowska and Nakamura
were introduced to Professor Muhammad
Nurhuda, a lecturer in theoretical physics
at Brawijaya University in Malang, East
Java. Professor Nurhuda had been working
on the development of a top-lit uplift
gasifier stove, named the UB.03-01 stove.
This stove used up to 80% less wood than
a three-stone cookfire and produced no
smoke when burning dry fuel. Made from
sheet metal, the stove was lightweight and
easy to transport - a valuable feature in
order to expand distribution to remote
islands. The factory price of the stove, less
than US$ 13, was far lower than imported
cookstoves (in the range of US$ 30-50)
and there was no risk of shipments being
delayed in customs.
This confluence of innovative design,
fuel-efficiency, portability and affordability
made the stove extremely attractive from a
technical and economical viewpoint.</i></div><div><br></div><div><b><i>The UB.03-1 stove was regularly
selected as the most popular clean
cookstove at these events. In Bojonegoro,
East Java, it was voted the most popular
product of all technologies including
solar lights, water filters and agricultural
technologies. </i></b></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>A further key supply chain development
came in late 2013 when Norwegian
investment group Differ became the
majority investor and distributor of
Professor Nurhuda’s UB.03-1 cookstove.”</i></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. Most of the story was about the distribution system set up by Kopernik, which company can be found at: <a href="http://www.kopernik.ngo/">http://www.kopernik.ngo/</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. There is a good bit about a firm called Prime stoves (<a href="http://www.primestoves.com/team/">http://www.primestoves.com/team/</a>), headed by Ms Fulland</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5. Dr. Nurhuda and Ms. Fulland: </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Can you add anything on why the stove purchasers liked your TLUD stove better than others? (time saving? using the char?, smoke reduction?, able to use small branches?, making money?, saving money?, etc?</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I would have liked to included an address for the founders of Kopernik (<i>Wojkowska and Nakamura) </i>, so hope you will see if they also wish to comment.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Congratulations to all involved, especially the Hedon publishers of BP, who I presume read this list some.</div><div><br></div><div>Ron</div></body></html>