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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Ron<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">What’s your point? That Nikhil has to respond to
<i>your</i> repetitions? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Why don’t you take the free time you have when he is busy to read the fundamental papers on the topic you are attempting to address. He has advised you to do so repeatedly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>Note that Nikhil is slipping - a 3 day delay in response. No answers to any of my questions and only a repeat of his standard talking points.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Dec 20, 2017, at 8:57 AM, Nikhil Desai <<a href="mailto:pienergy2008@gmail.com">pienergy2008@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Lab WBT is not worth arguing about. I don’t know what good it does. <o:p></o:p></p>
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This paper in question does look at real stoves and fuels, but what shall I compare its results with - lab readings with WBT with some fictional three-stone stove and a fuel type that is not obtained locally in the areas in question? That's what I meant by
"cooked up evidence". They compare their findings to the lab results with WBT; I say the comparison is meaningless, since WBT itself is meaningless to begin with. <br>
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There is no established relationship between real emission factors and emission rates and the type of disease incidence that may have any meaning for intervention. All we have is GoBbleDygook of DALYs computed from emission rates, with no theory, no data. <br>
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There is no question that smoke may lead to some illness depending on the person in question, level of exposure, and other individual and environmental factors. All I am saying is that no quantification can yet be made. <br>
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I have now read the paper and I am baffled at your claim that "it is full of health rationales (for India)."<br>
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It makes no findings about health, just about emission factors in a small part of India.
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To the authors' credit, they specify what fuels they have evaluated, provide their chemical analysis. And they have looked at actual cooking, not water boiling. <br>
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I wonder if they had looked at GACC-commissioned study in India of district-level emissions. <o:p></o:p></p>
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very hard to not let a fire go out - and real cooks have other, conflicting responsibilities.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>So you doubt my doubt - please show a clear line between this paper’ s (non-WBT) numbers and what might result in a lab WBT test of a chula? </b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>[RWL: You believe this paper is not looking at “real stoves and fuels”? Their study looked to me pretty real. How would you have improved it?</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The (non-fee) paper is at <a href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.atmos-chem-phys.net%2F17%2F13721%2F2017%2Facp-17-13721-2017.pdf&data=02%7C01%7C%7C47f1e652e6284580370a08d548d7ca53%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636495014000125514&sdata=1xhGRApP2Ny6%2FAyioQ0C90YGT2aK3jY9r7OjvZqdBis%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/17/13721/2017/acp-17-13721-2017.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Twenty years ago we had some fine comments from a Professor at Washington University - who (I vaguely recall) was interested in some seeds that performed well for cooking because of their high oil content - that had no other use, because
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