<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div>Greetings Stovers,</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Daniel-John Peterson <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:exiledspirit@gmail.com" class="">exiledspirit@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto" class="">Positive story from Ghana here. Any comments on this article?<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><a href="https://medium.com/@Kiva/finding-a-green-local-solution-to-a-deadly-household-chore-7e61f0283691" class="">https://medium.com/@Kiva/findi<wbr class="">ng-a-green-local-solution-to-<wbr class="">a-deadly-household-chore-<wbr class="">7e61f0283691</a></div></div></div>______________________________<wbr class="">________________<br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would like to use this article as an example. It includes the necessary requirements describing a unique fuel (palm kernels) and ends in a completed task (vegetable soup). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This stove could be something many others around the World could use where this type of fuel is available and same tasks are wanted. Our goal is to present the information such that others can search and find and enough information to make a purchase. The stove needs to be tested by an independent lab to qualify the fuel and operations towards the finished task. All fuel and supplies included with the stove are sent to the lab. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It would be helpful if the authors of the article could supply the following information:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Box 1) Describe the fuel. How it is prepared for the stove (dried, shredded, cut, piled and compressed into bricks etc.). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Box 2) Describe how the fuel is inserted into the combustion chamber (batch mode, hand packed, feed in continuous slowly, feed in in batches then time before next feeding etc.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Box 3) Description of the combustion chamber, (measurements, metal type, surrounding insulation and support etc).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Box 4) Cooking utensils used with the stove to complete the task (size, type etc.).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Box 5) Manipulation of the cooking operation (stirring, flipping, etc.).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Box 6) Task completed (taste, quality of finished product etc.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The laboratory would add additional information on the fuel. Enough information such that fuels tested in other areas could be compared to this successful fuel so that results can be used to determine if this stove would work for them. The lab would repeat the findings of the presenters in completing a task. Collect more data as to time, fuel used, fuel limitations and such. The data would go into a database for used when searching stoves using such and such a fuel or stoves completing a specific task. The lab tests cost would be low enough so anyone developing stoves in their backyard could send in the protocol for their stove, have it tested and (successful) results included in a database. The database used for NGOs in selecting stoves for distribution in an area.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I believe this was the intention of the WBT. Several problems, one being there needed a better protocol and also that the conclusion is ’the best stove’. I (now) think there should be no ‘best’ stove. Just stoves using a specific type of fuel will complete a specific type of task. The findings included in the lab report can help make decisions as to the group of stoves to pick for distribution. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have suggested test packages for testing the biomass fuel should any University or stove testing group like to proceed with this. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><div class="">Thanks</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Frank</div><div class="">Frank Shields</div><div class="">Gabilan Laboratory</div><div class="">Keith Day Company, Inc.</div><div class="">1091 Madison Lane</div><div class="">Salinas, CA 93907</div><div class="">(831) 246-0417 cell</div><div class="">(831) 771-0126 office</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></div></div><br class=""></body></html>