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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Anand,<br>
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That means we will be soon out of business!<br>
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Which would be great news, if about 1.2 billion Indians were soon
having 100% clean cooking.<br>
Indeed, India is a country where, when the political will is
there, mountains can be moved, and change happens very rapidly,
even to the poorest. We follow attentively the quick progress of
LPG and induction stoves.<br>
<br>
But what we see when we go to the villages, even in a
comparatively rich and developed state such as Tamil Nadu, where
LPG and electricity is spread, is that people are still massively
using wood for cooking. Often, they have gas connection, but their
bottle is empty, and even with a subsidized gas, they prefer to
cook with (free, collected) wood, than to do a gas refill. And
they do most of the cooking with wood.<br>
Don't you think also that the amount of energy required for
induction cooking would put a great toll on the already strained
supply of electricity in India? Load sheds are still too often.<br>
It is possible that wood cooking still has a few decades of life
expectancy.<br>
<br>
I think in the coming decades, clean biomass cookstoves will still
be part of the energy mix. But we need to be ready to evolve, to
adapt. Master the clean combustion of wood products is something
that could be adapted to other markets than only the household
markets, may the need not exist anymore for households.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Xavier<br>
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On 6/15/16 11:30 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:stoves-request@lists.bioenergylists.org">stoves-request@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>
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<pre wrap="">As far as India is concerned, our government is planning to give
electricity to all households in the next 5 years. Induction stoves are
being used even in villages, where electricity has become available. The
programme of giving LPG to poor householders has also already been started.
Availability of electricity and LPG, and the rapid pace of urbanization
would soon spell the end of biomass based cooking.</pre>
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