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<span style="font-size:initial; text-align:initial; line-height:initial">Let's not assume anything.ý These were the findings of the study which was a multi-year attempt to find out if there was any long term reason to get involved in the promotion of solar
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<span style="font-size:initial; text-align:initial; line-height:initial">The conclusion was, no. ýAnd they swore them off. For them, if they had a chance anywhere that was the ideal place, and it was not viable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:initial; text-align:initial; line-height:initial">Very sane. </span></div>
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<div>Crispin;</div>
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<div>You have listed enough reasons to dispute the sanity of GIZ experts. </div>
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On Jun 13, 2017, at 11:35 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="">Solar concentrating cooker:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="">One of the main problems encountered with solar cookers (K14, K16 and so on) in the last big GIZ effort in North-West Province of South Africa was, in spite of the rural location, theft of the stoves for sale to scrap
merchants. Aluminum is valuable. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Another common problem is wind tipping them over.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A third is wind-blown dust getting into the food.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A fourth is theft of the food.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A fifth is storage of the unit. </p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">People have little space in their homes and storage of a valuable cooker outdoors is not practical.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">GIZ spent about 7m Euros on that project and declared no further interest in solar cookers.</p>
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