<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Crispin<br><br></div>From the experience in selling stoves in the past years, i sensed that every price bracket would cater to corresponding consumer sector as follows<br><br></div><div>Stoves sold greater than<br><br></div><div> 1: greater than $ 17.77 and beyond: business persons<br></div><div> 2 : between $ 7.77 to 17.77 regularly employed workers<br></div><div> 3 : between $ 7.77and 2.22 partly employed workers, street food vendors<br></div><div> 4: below $ 2.22 marginal families <br><br></div><div>Consumers at Bracket 1 are well off families who would buy stoves with the sculpted art works. <br><br></div><div>Those at Bracket 2 would buy stoves only as a back up for their gas or electric stoves. <br><br></div><div>What i would like to cover are people in bracket 3. This is the market sector where the consumption of wood charcoal is the highest and are always finding means to save from fuel consumption. <br><br></div><div>Families at Bracket 4 would consume a combination of wood charcoal and raw biomass fuel in very poorly designed stoves. They are less likely to buy stoves and would rather make their own. This is the market sector whom i would like to give the skills training and hopefully and consequently sell it off to people in Bracket 3 and up. <br><br></div><div>For my latest stove model. (the PapaBrick Stove) sadly, the direct production cost is at $ 11.21. of this cost, 68% is for labor. <br><br></div><div>The metal bucket has become a necessity for clients who would need
transport the stove all the way home This prevented breakage during
handling. With my holey roket stove in the past years, about 25 % of
them broke during transport. The metal components represent 24 % of the
total cost. ($ 2.73)<br><br>It is very possible to sell it without the metal canister. The clients have an option to buy the bricks as liners and install it on their own, in their own kitchen, pack it with clay or soft concrete. Cost of clay is $0.77 and labor is $ 7.59 thus total of $ 8.37. This will require a pool of stove technicians who will assist and train the clients. <br><br></div><div></div><div>My workshop to produce these is very much artisanal. I started practically with simple hand tools and learning from the techniques of local potters and from the list serve. To achieve economies of scale and bring down the cost down to $5 and less I need to fabricate/ purchase more efficient machines including clay pulverizers, mixer, potter's wheel and a bigger kiln, .... or have the stoves manufactured by well established pottery shops. <br><br>On the brighter side, and from my own experience, this experience attests that a poor family can actually make their own such stove with simple hand tools. Which is why another client sector here in the Philippines are the humanitarian NGOs for skills trainings. Some of the high points are the families in the flood prones areas of Bulacan and then those at the families ravaged by the Megastorm Haiyan. We connect the stoves to resolve garbage problems,flooding as well as improve soil fertility to produce food. Im happier developing the technology and teaching them to the communities. <br><br><br></div><div>Kind regards to everyone<br><br></div><div>Jed <br></div><div><br><br></div><div> <br> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Joshua B. Guinto<br></span></b><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Specialist, Appropriate Technology<br></span></div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">MSc Management of AgroEcological Knowledge and Social Change (MAKS)<br></span></div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Wageningen University, The Netherlands</span> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif">2006 to 2008</span><b><br></b></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Recipient, International Fellowships Programme (IFP) 2005<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Ford Foundation </span><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-07-28 1:25 GMT+08:00 Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com" target="_blank">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-CA"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Dear Jed<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Thanks for the pictures. I was thinking you had a ceramic stove (like pottery). For the really cheap stoves I was referring to, there is no metal. Too expensive. There is one called an Anglo Supra and Anglo Supra Nova. They have a metal shell and clay interior. They sell for about $5.50. Usually they burn charcoal but small wood is also used.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I am looking for something that will be made from clay only. Here is the traditional clay Keren Stove.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="cid:image001.png@01D0C86F.B048F200" height="478" width="378"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">That is the baseline product. They should also make TLUD’s, I think.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Crispin<u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Attach are three more photos of the stove in operation. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">We had problems lighting the the fuel from the top to run it in TLUD mode during the tests and greatly discouraged the cook of the food stall in the public market. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">However, the high point of the test is upon realizing that the stove can run clean on their stocks of coco charcoal in strong and smokeless flame. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The stove ran for one hour with six pieces of coco charcoal. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The food stall consume one bag (about 35 kilograms of wood charcoal per day) for their four units of wood charcoal stoves. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Joshua B. Guinto<br><br></span></b><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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