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<p>Dear Crispin</p>
Working as I am for a small UK charity aiding Mongolia's poorer
herders, I follow events there including what is happening in UB. We
provide no aid to the city, but for half of its 1.4 million
population it is home to ex herders forced there from the
countryside by past livestock disasters. It is to those still
herding that our aid goes, mostly to dig pit wells for livestock,
and hopefully to help sustain their livelihoods to continue herding
as long as possible. Our sympathies are very much with them however,
as thousands have been forced there by one hellish situation, only
to face another equally, if not more hellish situation.<br>
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Their 'ger city' encampments are said to be the cause of 80% of the
city's air pollution, with UB now alternating with Beijing as being
the worst and second worst polluting cities anywhere in the world.
In UB this results in 20% mortality of children under 5, and 10% of
overall mortality, according to WB. It also cuts short many other
lives, referred to as DALYs. <br>
<br>
All this I am sure you well know, as I have just discovered and read
with great interest your online published article<span class="st">
"Development Of A Low Smoke </span><em>Mongolian</em><span
class="st"> Coal Stove, Using A Heterogeneous Testing Protocol".<br>
</span><span class="st"></span><br>
<span class="st">I have little knowledge of such complex matters,
but can follow any clear explanation as is shown by your article.
I have also read numerous WB reports where they have funded stove
projects using their 'Improved MCA Stoves' prior to and up to
2013. These projects actually began as early as 2002 via ESMAP
(UNDP/World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme).
It was in pursuit of follow-up information of this long running
saga that, following their update in July 2014 it now seems to
have faded into obscurity. I say this because the PM only recently
announced that all previous efforts to resolve the city's ever
worsening air pollution had got nowhere, he passing the
responsibility to his own scientific researchers to come up with a
viable solution. It's like starting all over again, after 15
wasted years.<br>
<br>
</span><span class="st">The Mongolian press carries many articles
about UB's air problems, largely of public concern for health
reasons, but nothing emerges of any activity to positively address
the problem that has been ongoing since the beginning of the
millennium. A UB Post article in 2014 touched on the matter
claiming that the WB stoves were using the 'wrong' coal, whereby
they were meant to use higher quality (anthracite?), but many
poorer ger-city dwellers were using low quality lignite coal.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/?p=7542">http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/?p=7542</a><br>
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</span><span class="st">Which brings me to your article that
positively asserts and scientifically proves, that properly
adapted ELCD stoves can efficiently burn low grade coal. Your
comment that its flue output is cleaner than the (polluted)
ambient air feeding it is nothing short of astonishing. It seems
clear that your findings and advice were shared by GoM fuel/energy
experts then (2011?) involved in researching this very problem, so
I am even more confused by your disclosures, left to wonder why
such simple, low cost adaptations using cheap coal have not been
taken up.<br>
<br>
Any enlightening information will be appreciated, although I
recognise that there may be a much more complex background to the
situation than you may be able to or wish to provide. My interest
is at a personal level, unconnected with the charity I represent
or its work. Either way, I look forward to hearing from you.<br>
<br>
With very best wishes<br>
<br>
Bill Munns<br>
Secretary<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.camda.org.uk">www.camda.org.uk</a><br>
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