<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Ron for this update.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Frank</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 30, 2016, at 10:58 PM, Ronal W. Larson <<a href="mailto:rongretlarson@comcast.net" class="">rongretlarson@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">List:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This is really day #1 of the Official ETHOS conference; Yesterday (Friday) was informal. To really understand the layout - see the agenda at</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.ethoscon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ETHOS-2016-Agenda-revJan28.pdf" class="">http://www.ethoscon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ETHOS-2016-Agenda-revJan28.pdf</a>. I’ll identify the sessions by the times listed there. Missing times are for breaks and lunch/dinner.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">7:30-8:30 Most of 8-10 booths open for chatting with individuals - with breakfast materials available</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I. 8:30 <b class=""><u class=""> Opening</u></b> by Elisa Derby; Introduced ETHOS board (I don’t see them at the above site, but these are some: Dana Charon, Paul Means. Larry Winiarski, Jessica Trainer, John Mitchell )</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">II. 9‐10am <u class=""><b class="">Plenary Discussion: Global Alliance update</b></u> </div><div class="">Ranyee Chiang + 3 (1 missing who couldn’t make it) See <a href="http://cleancookstoves.org/about/our-team/index.html" class="">http://cleancookstoves.org/about/our-team/index.html</a></div><div class="">Brian Smith (COO), Richard Grinnell (South America specialist), Neeraja Penumetcha (reporting, etc)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>As last year, the attendees were asked to choose a category from about a dozen. All the slides will be up in a few weeks at the ETHOS site. </div><div class="">Topics and key words (sort of in order): Market change, Health, Budget commitments ($413 Millions of 2014), Behavior Change Communication (BCC), Marketing, Evaluation and learnings, 8 focus countries (China, India, +6); “Catalog” (Need for more submissions - see <a href="http://catalog.cleancookstoves.org/" class="">http://catalog.cleancookstoves.org/</a>); problems in selling to governments-NGO-real customers; Chasing Numbers (not true - 28 Million in 2014 out of target 100 Million stoves by 2020)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Main equation: Tech/fuels X adoption/use/ventilation X scale = benefits for health, environment, livelihoods</div><div class="">Last 5 minutes: Clean and Efficient, Funding Decision, Local - International, Ghana conference</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">III. <u class=""><b class="">10‐11am Department of Energy Biomass Stoves Grant update</b></u> </div></div><div class=""> Elliott Levine of DoE moderated; slides all coming</div><div class=""> A. Dave stokes RTI - Thermoelectric with stoves</div><div class=""> B. Ashok Gadgil (Berkeley National Lab)- Thin film thermoelectric generator 5.3 kW 2.9 kW for simmer; changing diffusion flame towards pre-mixed; excellent graphs for 4 stoves + three stone fire; No TLUDs</div><div class=""> C. Tim Theiss - ORNL - mostly on stainless alloys, finding that a FeCrSi alloy (to yet being marketed) looks quite promising. 1000 hour tests with salted woods</div><div class=""> D. Jonathan Posner U Washington achieved all Tier 4 with a (highly modified) Rocket, working with Burn Lab</div><div class="">some study of TLUDs</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IV. 11:30‐12:30pm <u class=""><b class="">Three-way session breakout</b></u>; I went to #3 on TLUDs</div><div class=""> A. TLUD modeling - Tillotson, CSU - Nice work with "Phase 2” study of adding fuel after main early pyrolysis (not good results)</div><div class=""> B. Paul Anderson - Ten Topics he is personally involved with (ew key words that I wrote down)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. Uganda Kenya; T-CHAR Awamu, Wisdom; Niko Koa from Burn Mfg</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. Ghana Abellon; KNUST Troika</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. South Africa; FAABulous (Fan Assisted Appliance Base w David Lello (see below)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. Cameroon, Sierra Leone</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5. Guatemala: Lake Atitlan; Plancha, AMSCLAE , bamboo, C4 kilns, Gustavo Pena</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>6. Haiti: El Fuego delSol (FdS</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>7. TLUD-RH-F2A; rice husk, Joseph James</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>8. Bangladesh and Canada; with Julien Winter</div><div class=""> 9. Guatemala, El Salvador, USA, Ghana and Brazil; C4 = Controlled Covered Continuous Cavity; Flame curtain</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>10. Portugal and USA: Gamdaric Industries ; James Schoner</div><div class="">Biochar conf. 22-25 August</div><div class="">Displayed new stove from China - Mimi-Moto (design from Netherlands); as clean as LPG; $38 wholesale</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">V 2:00-3:10: <b class=""> Facilitated Discussion: Moving toward “cleaner” cooking energy systems at all levels</b></div><div class="">John Mitchell moderating; 5 min presentations (names not in agenda) + audience Q/A</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. Christa Roth (GIZ): Health, Climate, Poverty, Forest Degradation; “Development Goals”; Moisture content; Ref Prof. Pam Jagger, Fuel Lab, Univ. North Carolina; SEC3 = Sustainable Energy and Cleaner Cooking Coalition; see <a href="http://www.cleanercooking.org/" class="">www.cleanercooking.org</a></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. Brian Smith (GACC) Tools - Clean Cooking catalog (includes fuels); FACIT (Fuel Analysis, Comparison, & Integration Tool</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. Michael Johnson (Berkeley); WHO book (Household ….Consumption); AQG (Exposure risk curve plots)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. Nordica McCarty; now (after Iowa State - Prof at OSU (humanitarian engineering program); Climate emphasis - used Nate Johnson data for Mali village approx 6 MJ/yr per person; thesis paper with Bryden 2015; Emphasis on usability and adoption</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5. Paul Means, Burn Lab; Why do people pick particular stoves; need to push envelope; “learning can be fun”</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>7. Cristal Cheong - Malawi is poorest country</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Q time (for 35 minutes)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Random comments from attendees: Rocket opening size problems; Peer pressure (more came to use); opposite: refusal to change; lessons from health studies (Malaria). Often promoting a technology is predictable - but not same for stoves. Need to think of attractiveness; have to figure out what women want; coming carbon negativity possibilities for biochar from biomass - but stoves could then be more modern - future low cost electricity, liquids and gasses all possible from biomass with char output.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">VI 3:50‐4:50pm Breakout again. I went to #1 <b class="">Financing/distribution</b></div><div class=""> A. Vahid Jahangiri /Creative Distribution
Models in Haiti and Uganda</div><div class=""> Used Community Development Clubs for financing with WASH; now his group is a main stove player in Haiti, working with plastic collection centers (sell stoves there); at some large factories can sell through paycheck deductions; gave 5 elements of success, such as context dynamics & synergies (slides coming)</div><div class=""> B. Obama Stove - Luni Libes of Fledge group (Seattle); funding early entrepreneurs from developing countries ($20k each +10-week training); have had 52 graduates (7 at a time); Example: Ethiopia with ceramic charcoal burner; 250 k units sold, now using 1 large briquette</div><div class=""> C. Dave Lello of Capetown “Bridging the price gap
between ND TLUDs and FA
TLUDs with a PAYG option”; putting together an energy package for $20/month with solar PV; phone recharge and stove fan; using PAYGo; only need add 2-3 PV watts for stove fan.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">VII. 5‐5:30pm <u class=""><b class=""> Panel Discussion: ISO update </b></u></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>There are 4 Working Groups: - working on tight timetables. I missed most of this, but know John Mitchell, Ranyee Chiang and Elisa Derby reported. They should be contacted for specific responsibilities.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Example WG4 (Elisa Derby subbing here) Social Impacts: covers Social-economic, Gender, Employment, Time Use, Perceptions of factors related to well-being, Health, Accidents and safety, Exposures, Environmental - all these on a per capita basis;</div><div class=""> Final Working and Committee drafts due in March and April 2016</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">VIII: 7:15 - 8:00 <b class=""><u class="">Open Space</u></b></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>John Mitchell coordinating two groups - one biochar related (I went to) and one on materials. Art Donnelly was the leader with Paul Anderson, by virtue of suggesting the topic; about 25 attending here. Art gave background on his work in Costa Rica (mostly) in six villages using bamboo with water filtration aspects and cacao; emphasis on loosening clay soils; Tom Miles noted use in seedling growth (saving money over vermiculite). I noted uses to replace liming, feed to cattle, evening out a field; saving water and fertilizer, mine-land reclamation; Cool Vege sales in Japan; fire intensity reduction, sandy soil improvement, invasive species. Paul Anderson noted the list of 55 ways to use biochar in paper by Hans-Peter Schmidt.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Apologies for errors and omissions above.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Stoves mailing list<br class=""><br class="">to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br class=""><a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org" class="">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br class=""><br class="">to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br class="">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org<br class=""><br class="">for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site:<br class="">http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/<br class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>