<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="">List:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. Essentially zero discussion of anything biomass at any recent solar conference (but I have presented on biochar at earlier solar meetings - as a form of energy storage for the backup all solar needs). But there were two quite well-attended breakout sessions with about ten solar cooker talks - at the just-concluded 2017 ASES conference in Denver. See this site for the presenters and their topics on Tuesday AM: </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.ases.org/conference/program/" class="">http://www.ases.org/conference/program/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. There are good bios for all speakers at the above URL, but the ASES site just now wasn’t letting me get to them. But I did spend extensive time with all in the first session: </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dr. Alan Bigelow (SCI’s science director), </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dr. Deepak Gadhia (chair of the last SCI conference - in India - and world record holder for enabling the most solar-cooked meals), </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Julie Greene (SCI Executive Director - who has attended ETHOS meetings). </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Patty Roberts (a past SCI board member and neighbor/friend - also demonstrating; also has attended ETHOS), and</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Douglas Simmers (an Ohio inventor, with several clever new solar cooker types [also being demonstrated]) </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Good talks in the second session as well, but I didn’t interact as much with that group.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. I believe Bigelow, Gadhia, and Greene will all attend the upcoming GACC meeting in Delhi. Bigelow will also attend the ISO meeting in Kathmandu. Bigalow (I think) and Greene will attend COP23 in Bonn in November. </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>All of them have now some introduction to char-making stoves - which I believe (no commitment from them) is a best fit as a backup to virtually any solar cooker. </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I urge contact by this list’s members with these SCI folk - as they too are concerned about over-reliance on LPG.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>SCI is doing better at fundraising than at least the biochar group - because they have significant voluntary donations beyond dues from their members. Not as good as GACC of course - which is more country-funded.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. I will be writing later on why a solar-TLUD combination likely has both better economics and emissions than any LPG stove possibility.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5. Let me know if solar cooking is of interest to any on this biomass-oriented cookstove list;; I believe I can obtain their power-points. </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>6. There was no mention of biomass cooking in either session.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ron</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>