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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Dear Nikhil,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>You probably already know, but it may not be clear to everyone,
this article is actually a satire from the New-York Times of 1948, and Paul
Jennings was an humorist. Pierre-Marie Ventre never existed, nor the
resistentialism theory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>What is your point Nikhil? That there is little humans can do
against the laws of physics and nature, so the mere idea that we can improve
human health by lowering air pollution is foolish and pure vanity?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Nature (things) kill humans. And humans kill humans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Until we have clear evidence that it is volcanos and sandstorms
which mostly cause deadly respiratory diseases, I think it still makes some
sense to try to mitigate human emissions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><br>
Xavier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Nikhil Desai
[mailto:pienergy2008@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> vendredi 11 mai 2018 19:39<br>
<b>À :</b> Crispin Pemberton-Pigott<br>
<b>Cc :</b> Andrew Heggie; Discussion of biomass cooking stoves; Tami
Bond; Cecil Cook; Xavier Brandao; Cookswell Jikos; Anil Rajvanshi<br>
<b>Objet :</b> Re: [Stoves] How to conduct research on hardware with a
strong social involvement (like stoves)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Crispin: <br>
<br>
Great reminder of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. <br>
<br>
Of note: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>"Our data might also be
contemplated through the prism of counterphenomenological resistentialism,
which holds that <em>les choses sont contre nous</em> (things are
against us).</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><a
href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1322240/#ref5"><span
style='color:#642A8F'>5</span></a></span><span style='color:black'> Resistentialism
is the belief that inanimate objects have a natural antipathy towards humans,
and therefore it is not people who control things but<u> things that
increasingly control people</u>. Although it seems unreasonable to say that the
teaspoons are exerting any influence over the Burnet Institute's employees
(with the exception of the authors), their demonstrated ability to migrate and
disappear shows that we have little or no control over them."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Sandstorms and volcano eruptions are proof positive that nature
kills us, otherwise we'd never have premature deaths. <br>
<br>
That experts' context-free cookstoves show something similar to "<span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white'>high
level of dissatisfaction with the level of service provided by teaspoons in
terms of their availability" is explainable by resistentialism. </span><br>
<br>
The reference to 13 June 1948 NYT article "Thingness of Things",
filed by Paul F. Jennings from Paris, attached. Resistentialism was called by
some "just a transcendental version of modern physics". <br>
<br>
Jennings cites Ventre, the pioneer resistentialist to assert "Things
cannot be dominated. Resistentialism is a tragic philosophy. It sees that man
is doomed by Things the moment he attempts to achieve anything outside his own
"mind" which, like Disney's Flying Mouse, is Not A Thing At
All." <br>
<br>
That is, all your claims about designing a perfect stove is vanity behind a
facade of science. You want to change things. Things will fight back! <br>
<br>
All this ISO jugglery is vain attempt to create a Stove for the Minds, burning
expertise into smoke. <br>
<br>
The same 13 June 1948 NYT had an advertisement (p. 29) for a portable electric
washer for a Long Island "summer hideout" (away from Manhattan
laundries, I guess) and - get this - a gadget "running hot water from a
cold water faucet"! (p .202). Running on AC of DC. Cost $3.98
postpaid. <br>
<br>
I don't know which water boiling test was applied to compute efficiency. <br>
<br>
Nikhil<br>
<br>
PS: "Things always win, and man can only be free from them by not doing
anything at all." <br>
<br>
Or drop the delusion of doing anything, any thing. <o:p></o:p></p>
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