<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div>Paul:</div><div><br>This is not a matter of "correct" or "incorrect". You and I have different theories. <br><br>Nothing matters until new stoves are found usable by cooks and used. I happen to want to target non-household customers first, and show biomass stoves competitive with LPG in terms of consumer preference. <br><br>My disagreement with Ron was not technical, simply a view on how consumer surveys are and ought to be done when public money is involved. Private projects can do anything they wish. <br><br>Nikhil</div><div> </div><div><br>On Dec 4, 2017, at 12:47 PM, Paul Anderson <<a href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu" target="_blank">psanders@ilstu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
  
    
  
  
    Nikhil,<br>
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    I reply to only one statement (two sentences) by you to Ron.  You
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    <blockquote type="cite">My view - uninformed by questionnaires, of
      course - is that household cookstoves are not the way to get
      biochar for soil conditioning. It should be a large-scale
      industrial project. </blockquote>
    Totally not correct.<br>
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    If and when large-scale industiral production of biochar kicks into
    gear, that will be fine and welcome.<br>
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    Meanwhile, char producion with household cookstoves is aready
    functional in West Bengal.  However, the char is sold for purposes
    of being burned.   But it is physically there if and when the
    biochar community provides sufficient justification for the char
    (appropriately prepared) to be put into soil.<br>
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    (I have a further comment about char in a message soon to reply to
    Crispin.)<br>
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