<div dir="ltr">Dear all<div><br></div><div>I am writing to reply to three questions asked by Paul Anderson (on May 26), Roger Samson (May 26), and Verena Brinkmann (May 29). I will reply separately to Roger's comments on subsidies.</div><div><br></div><div>These three questions address two issues: Gasifiers, and the funding of the study.</div><div><br></div><div>With regards to gasifiers, <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">I agree with Paul and Verena that they are a good solution. In addition to technology development, we need to better understand the key factors for the adoption of this technology. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">I still think that there is no silver bullet, and that, therefore, gasifiers are part of the solution.</span></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6667px">With regards to the funding question, w</span></font><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">e did not receive any external funding for this study. We both work at the Pan-American Health Organization, and carried out this work with our normal budget.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:14.5667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:14.5667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:14.5667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Karin</span></p></div></div></div>