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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dear Crispin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ego might be the main issue of
the human species.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The same inputs lead to the same
outputs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I disagree with Paul: the stove
sector doesn’t need to work harder. We worked hard enough. The sector needs to
work smarter. Disruptive technology is needed, but before that, there’s a need
for disruptive thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><br>
Xavier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='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";
color:windowtext'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Stoves
[mailto:stoves-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>De la part de</b> Crispin
Pemberton-Pigott<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> vendredi 13 juillet 2018 13:42<br>
<b>À :</b> Discussion of biomass cooking stoves<br>
<b>Objet :</b> Re: [Stoves] Must reed: Re: [stove] ProPublica article out<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Dear Xavier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Good to hear from
you as always.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Your summation on
global failure (compared with hoped-for results) can be repeated by looking
from another angle:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>My view is that
the main influencers, be they individuals or institutions, display
monomaniacalism resulting in not only the failure to achieve their touted
goals, but also causing others to fail where they might have succeeded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Monomania means
fanatically going after one thing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>We see:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>TLUD
as a method of burning promoted because it burns that way (gasificationism)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Char
making for non-cooking purposes, i.e. to save the planet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Rocket
Stove dimensionalism where ratios are held sacred, more than function<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Numerous,
spurious health claims, vague attributions and unbelievable causal assertions
(ameliorism)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Fuel
efficiency preferred over function (thermalism)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>LP Gas
promotion in a sector dominated by carbon-neutral fuels (unilinealism)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Speculative
fund-raising by imputing health benefits based on wonky methods and models
(shamanism)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Unapologetic
insistence on the use of the WBT, an unpublished, unreviewed test method known
to have numerous problems with no skill in forecasting performance in use
(desperately trying not to have been wrong or careless)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Using
a single fuel with a single moisture content as the ‘standard’ with which to
rate absolute or comparative performance (uniformitarianism)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Selling
cooking stoves as a solution to deforestation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Selling
cooking stoves as a solution to general air pollution<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Selling
cooking stoves as a solution to family health problems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Selling
cooking stoves as a solution to IAP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Selling
cooking stoves as a solution to sexual violence in refugee camps<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Selling
cooking stoves as a solution to drudgery and time inefficiency<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>One begins to ask,
“Is there <i>anything</i> a cooking stove cannot solve?” An observer
might legitimately ask, “If improved cooking stoves are capable of solving so
many problems, why don’t we see more people buying and using them?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Looking at Darfur,
we can learn a thing or two because they have had the most interventions. Some
homes have been given no less than 10 “improved stoves” by competing agencies
(I refer, of course, to the Stoves Wars of Darfur.) So what gets used?
What do women and cooks prefer if you watch them, interview and ask? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Two stoves are
popular: One is the all-mud stove developed locally by Practical Action,
because it holds the pot properly and cooks using a variety of available
biomass materials. The other is the Darfur stove from Berkeley, which when
turned upside down makes a good platform for cooking the main type of pancake,
which the mud stove does not. Turned the right way up, the all-metal Darfur
stove makes a passable charcoal burner though it is not very fuel-efficient as
it was designed to burn wood. Charcoal is a preferred fuel because, according
to the cooks, “It is cheaper to buy than wood.” Cecil Cook found the same thing
in the suburbs of Maputo. Thermal energy from wood was not a good offer, and
Shangalane, the hard, expensive charcoal, was by far the best deal in terms of
energy delivered per $. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>What are the cooks
monomaniacally interested in? How well do the proffered “solutions” match the
preferences and inclinations of the cooks? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>At a minimum, we
can say there seems to be a mismatch between what cooks want and do, and how
stoves are imagined and manufactured. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Knowing how to
burn is not the same as knowing how to cook. (In my case it is the same thing –
burning.) Cecil the Cook attended the blowtorch school of cuisine. That
requires a skillset I don’t have. When it comes to deep-fried dinner, I will
support my local diner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:windowtext'>Crisp’n’delicious</span><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre></div>
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