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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 7, 2017, at 7:34 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com" class="">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Dear Stovers<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">What on earth is a “clean fuel”?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Thanks<br class="">Crispin</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Its biomass uniformly prepared, sized and with proper combustion characteristics known suitable for a specific stove. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>We cannot complain about what other groups are doing with all the money allocated to them for improving biomass stoves and cleaner air until we give them a direction to go in. Not having a direction and complaining just goes in circles - as we have been doing for YEARS! The only direction (for now) is “What Preparation is Required for a Biomass to work in Paul’s Champion TLUD Stove? And How Best is That Done?”</div><div><br class=""></div><div>There is a big pile of biomass from a local community - what do we need to know about it and how best to size it for the Champion? </div><div><br class=""></div><div>We need (1) an equipped PRIVATE lab (no Universities) (2) creative personal (3) the stove (4) the biomass (5) money - and funders need to know this is research and not all research ends in grand success (as required by Universities). Ten steps backwards and one forward. The one’s forward add up over time. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Frank</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Stoves [<a href="mailto:stoves-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">mailto:stoves-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Traveller<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>7-Jan-17 09:24<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <<a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Stoves] News: GACC and CCAP launch "Urban Health and Short-Lived-Climate-Pollutants Reduction Project.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><h1 style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Trocchi; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); font-weight: normal;" class=""><a href="http://cleancookstoves.org/about/news/12-20-2016-alliance-promotes-climate-and-health-co-benefits-of-cookstoves.html" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Alliance promotes climate and health co-benefits of cookstoves</a>, 20 December 2016.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></h1><blockquote style="margin-left: 30pt; margin-right: 0cm;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">"To influence policy decisions of relevant ministries in Ghana, the Alliance is working with leading experts and partners, including Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, UrbanEmissions, and Dr. Ajay Pillarisetti to measure the burden of disease from household air pollution in Accra, the contribution of household energy consumption to ambient air pollution, and the potential reductions in exposure and resulting burden of disease due to a range of household energy interventions."<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class="">I suppose you all know the story of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.worldstory.net/en/stories/chicken_little.html" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Chicken Little</a>. For that chicken, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!"<br class=""><br class="">For our Global Alliance of Confident Chickens - it is "Look, look! I am carrying the sky over my head."<br class=""><br class="">In its<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cleancookstoves.org/resources/reports/2016progress.html" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">2016 Progress Report</a>, it boasts"Based on results reported by partners this year and careful analyses of the trends in available data, an estimated 20.6 million stoves and fuels were distributed in 2015, of which 13 million (63%) were clean and/or efficient." (See chart below). <br class=""><br class="">What did GACC have to do with it, and how did it cook up these numbers - total, "clean", "efficient"? I even wonder what "distributed" means and why the "Global Total Stove and Fuel Distribution" was supposedly close to zero in 2010 and is projected to rise to 300 million by 2020 [What kind of brainlessness does it take to imply "300 million fuel"?] <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">For Ghana, it says "Ghana has seen steady advancement in transforming the cookstoves and fuels sector in 2016. As part of the government’s efforts to reduce deforestation and provide a cleaner cooking fuel, Ghana’s Petroleum Minister Hon. Emmanuel Buah launched a program to provide households with cooking gas connections. The program has distributed 70,000 LPG cylinders to families across six regions."<br class=""><br class="">WHOA!! Ghana started LPG production in 1981 and had<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.esmap.org/sites/esmap.org/files/Rpt_Ghanalpgquayefoli.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">600,000 LPG cylinders in 1997</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>already. What if anything did GACC have to do with these 70,000 cylinders? (Give GACC CEO - potentate - credit for giving no credit in the Progress Report to any other GACC staff. Did she hire them?) <br class=""><br class="">Now Ghana is going to have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-25/ge-venture-to-build-world-s-largest-lpg-power-plant-in-ghana" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">the world's largest LPG-fired power plant</a>. Credit to GACC? <br class=""><br class="">Is GACC a marketer for BAMG and vice versa? These two private organizations are gallivanting around the world to drum up more money for themselves. All in the name of the poor and without a mandate or competence. <br class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Any pretense that some HAPIT modeling will show enough "health co-benefits" to "influence policy decisions of relevant ministries in Ghana" betrays utter ignorance of last 100 years' history of shifting cooking to gas and electricity, in and outside the homes. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Nobody has to date published any quantified claims of health benefits of modern energy transitions in the rich countries over that period. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br class="">But somehow it is only the poor who need expert lecturing - and well-baked models - to be convinced, of "potential" reductions in the burden of disease. <br class=""><br class="">What is the baseline for the burden of disease? Under what assumptions? How long will this charade go on? <o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;" class="">And why is GACC babbling "a range of household energy interventions" in Accra when, from whatever I can tell, all it can take credit for in Ghana is on gas. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;" class="">Why don't we call it Global Alliance for Gas [GAG]?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;" class=""><br class="">Because it is a one-person radio of the Global Alliance for Boast [GAB]? <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;" class=""><br class="">For all her appearances, is GACC a one-woman show? <br class=""><br class="">Well, Hillary is another one. Though now<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/opinion/sunday/rumors-of-hillary-clintons-comeback.html" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">she is said to be mulling NYC mayorship</a>. <br class=""><br class="">There is plenty of PM2.5 in NYC.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/environmental/comm-air-survey-08-14.pdf" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">SO2 levels have declined</a> recently but PM2.5 levels still remain high near boilers. The queens of Chappaqua and Washington can partner with Trump Organization to replace all the boilers with electricity - solar and wind - or build new real estate. Win, Win, Win!! Goldman Sachs is drooling. <br class=""><br class="">Nikhil<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;" class=""><br class="">PS: I like the idea of SLCP reduction; wrote a concept note back in 2005.Ghana became one of the pioneering members of something called clean air and climate coalition (or some other mixture of these words), started by or under the leadership of Hillary circa 2011. Jerry Brown has signed in an SLCP law. GACC and BAMG are probably looking to monetize health and climate benefits from every gas stove for individual customers and take a middleman's cut. Poverty mixed with ignorance and absence of laws is a gold mine. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;" class=""><span id="cid:image001.png@01D268D1.A12955E0"><image001.png></span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;" class="">Source: GACC<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; 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