<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div class="gmail_quote"><br><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Sorry if I am spamming the Stove List, I will try to post less
and gather my answers together.
<p>Thanks to those of you who supported the initiative! Each voice counts.</p>
<p>I wanted to say a few words about our stance, especially for
non-technical people. Some of you have said that the testing issues were very technical and complex, and they felt a
bit uncomfortable to take a stance on a question they don't master
completely. This is fully understandable.<br></p>
<p>I am myself not a technical person, I don't have an engineer or
researcher background.<br>
</p>
<p>In fact, our stance is really simple, it is the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>"Several studies have been published these last years. They
conclude that the WBT has a lot of fundamental flaws. That the
results generated by WBT testing are not reliable. I am not able
to understand everything that led the scientists to this
conclusion, but what I can understand very well is the
conclusion. These authors are sounding the alarm.</li>
<li>I have not seen, during all these years, anyone answer to
these alarms. No scientist contested the outcomes of the study.
The burden of proof lies now in the WBT "camp".</li>
<li>So, if there are no satisfactory answer to these critiques, as
a concerned stove practitioner (or sympathiser) concerned by the
future of this sector, I would like the precautionary principle
to be followed. I am asking that the GACC stop promoting this
protocol and instead support promotion and development of
protocols which validity is not contested."<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>This is a simple, solid, reasonable position. This is common
sense. This is something understandable, and no one should go
against that.</p>
<p>If you want to support but don't want your name to be public, no
problem at all, please let me know by email.</p>
<p>I remind you that our goal is to ask the GACC to:</p>
<ul>
<li>publicly acknowledge that the WBT has major shortcomings</li>
<li>to remove the protocol from its website, so cookstove sector
stakeholders do not use it</li>
<li>to actively promote development and use of other, valid,
protocols<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Please support our initiative by writing a simple email to me
here:</p>
<p><a class="m_2758038377122707963moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:xvr.brandao@gmail.com" target="_blank">xvr.brandao@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>Thank you very much in advance!</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p>Xavier<br>
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