<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div>Frank:</div><div><br></div><div>Presumably the larger research plan behind this China paper is to address the issues of fuel quality and cost, reliability of supplies, AFTER some stoves are shown to be used six months after installation. </div><div><br></div><div>This would be the opposite way of matching fuels and stoves; instead of "fix the fuel, optimize the stove", it amounts to "confirm a stove's utility if the fuel can be processed in order to optimize the stove usability." </div><div><br></div><div>My question is, do the funders of this study have a strategic vision for such research that can be policy-relevant?</div><div><br></div><div>Interviews with 10 households in China can cook the researchers' meals, but the ultimate challenge is not of publishing papers.</div><div><br></div><div>Star is over. GACC is nearly over. What is the theory of progress that leads to more than just publications of papers and holding webinars?</div><div><br></div><div>Is anybody accountable for anything? Does anybody have the responsibility other than spend research budgets?<br><br>This is something this List could contribute to - how to plan a research budget for cookstove and fuel supplies development that can be implemented in real contexts with real cooks in mind. <br><br>Say I propose to reformulate Kirk Smith's challenge to the biomass stove community for South Asia: <br><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div dir="auto"><div>"Devise a user-centered, iterative engineering approach for the cooking and heating market for all users who are not entitled to subsidized LPG distribution in such a way that a billion people and their living/working environments may be reached by 2030." </div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><div><br></div><div>This would include definition of contexts, contextual analysis of preferences and fuel/feedstock types, and a diagram of iterative sequences. <br><br>If not a billion people, how about half a billion people? <br><br></div><div>Is anybody game to work on this? For free, of course. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>Nikhil Desai<div><br></div></div><div><br>On Nov 29, 2017, at 2:59 PM, Frank Shields <<a href="mailto:franke@cruzio.com" target="_blank">franke@cruzio.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:minion-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",STIXGeneral,serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none">Dear stovers,<br>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:minion-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",STIXGeneral,serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none">It looks like these
are all Pellet stoves. And the pellets are supplied for the
duration of the testing to reduce variability. A good test as
long as you are ready to supply pellets. Otherwise I'm thinking
a waste of time and money. <br>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:minion-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",STIXGeneral,serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none">"These prototype
stoves were introduced on a trial basis to obtain feedback on
user experiences and evaluate whether the stove was robust to
'real life' usage conditions. Pelletized biomass fuel produced
from a nearby village-scale factory was supplied to homes at no
cost to remove barriers to stove use. Selected homes were
already enrolled in a household energy study. A detailed
description of the study site and homes' energy practices are
provided elsewhere (Ni<span class="m_-6164063350497134234Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:minion-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",STIXGeneral,serif;font-size:18px;font-style:italic;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">et al</em><span><span class="m_-6164063350497134234Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a class="m_-6164063350497134234cite m_-6164063350497134234hastip m_-6164063350497134234tooltipstered" href="http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa804f/meta#erlaa804fr37" id="m_-6164063350497134234fnref-erlaa804fr37" target="_blank">2016</a><span>)."</span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:minion-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",STIXGeneral,serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none">If they determined
(and reported) the range of different characteristics for the
optimum biomass fuel then it would be something we could use. <br>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:minion-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",STIXGeneral,serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none">Regards</span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:minion-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",STIXGeneral,serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none"><br>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:minion-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",STIXGeneral,serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none">Frank<br>
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