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Crispin,<br>
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Thank you for your summary of the organizational and financial
stove-stories of this 21st Century. From what I observed during
that time, your summary is fine. Not perfect (because we were not
in the rooms when the deals were being made), but probably
reasonably accurate for the most part. . <br>
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At the end, you mention a possible opportunity. Please elaborate
if you have something (or options) in mind.<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Doc / Dr TLUD / Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu">psanders@ilstu.edu</a>
Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.drtlud.com">www.drtlud.com</a></pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/16/2018 5:55 AM, Crispin
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Thank you for being engaged and observant. I wonder how on earth
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The $50m was from the State Department as I recall. I have the
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It was $25m for GACC to get the pot cooking so as to attract
more, and $25 for the DOE to be distributed by none other than
Sam Baldwin, head of research, not so? The Nov 2014 Hillary-fest
in NYC was to raise pledges from others, including USAID which
a) hates stoves and b) mumbled something about money "pending
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I was a reviewer of five of the grants coming from the DOE's
$25m so I believe that actually happened. ŭIt was divided into
two sorts: small and large hardware demonstrations and basic
research to be done by national labs in the US. I researched who
was able to apply for these and there is some law about the DOE
not giving grants to foreign entities. It was therefore a
surprise to find outsiders were able to apply for some, but they
added, 'together with a local partner' so that covered it. A
twist came later when non-US groups were permitted to bid on at
least one large grant that may have been jointly administered by
the DOE and EPA. That seems to have evaded the domestic
organisation limitation, possibly through some EPA technical
assistance grant route. Details are illusive because Sam was
present so it involved the $25m but did not have the hitherto
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The technique used by GACC was the same as Winrock's: create a
'network', get people to sign on as collaborators, and count
anything they did as 'achieved' contributions to the global
goals. Every stove I sell ŭcounts towards the 1m goal, even
now. </div>
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<span style="font-size:initial; line-height:initial;
text-align:initial">Various funders showed up to join as board
members and donors to GACC, with differing levels of
engagement, some only on an earmarked fund basis. The World LP
Gas Association was always involved. Clean cooking, right? No
disagreement there. All LPG requires is subsidy. Look at the
'success' in Indonesia. 40m new users in two years, right? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:initial; line-height:initial;
text-align:initial">LP Gas sent a rep to participate in the
writing of the South African paraffin stove standard,
apparently intent on making it as complicated and expensive as
possible. Every little bit helps, right? Well-burned kerosene
is every bit as clean as well-burned LPG so it is more of a
direct market share threat than miserable wood. What to do?
Embed the 'dirty kerosene' meme into every moving pen starting
in India, 1999. As late as 2015 I have seen this 'kerosene
must be banned along with wood and coal' meme showing up in
new advisory documents, "<i>because it is just as inherently
dirty</i><span>"ŭ. This whole show is like a bad soap opera:
lots of cunning. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:initial; line-height:initial;
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admitted by the WHO in Lisbon a couple of months ago, ŭis
carving a corner for solid fuels, at least for a while,
until gas "inevitably" takes its place. (Never plan your
programme on the basis that something is inevitable.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:initial; line-height:initial;
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clean biomass impact is not found for IAQ, but is easily
found for coal! </span></span><span
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text-align:initial">ŭ You have to admit that is sort of
humorous given the AGW mania swirling around the sector. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:initial; line-height:initial;
text-align:initial">Paul Anderson's patient success, and
Sujatha, who got shafted in the process (in my view) are
rather easily brushed aside for not fitting the profile of the
original vision. Plus, it is not gas, it is gasification.
ŭRemember this is a State Department exercise fronted by the
UNF. What do you think their interests are? Where hide the
quids pro quo?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:initial; line-height:initial;
text-align:initial">One has to be practical about these
things. The State Department is going to spend its money on
American contractors when it can. Consultants deliver what's
in the contract. Cooperating organisations do the legwork with
a little help from their friends. The ISO exercise tried very
hard to deliver an EPA-based test method that ŭkind of, sort
of, doesn't invalidate the WBT, hedged with some plausible
deniability clauses, and there are of course, the 'tiers'
without which LPG cannot claim to have special status. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:initial; line-height:initial;
text-align:initial">The spanners in the works are the
super-clean burning TLUD gasifiers, both for coal and for
wood, and the cross-draft coal burning cooking and heating
stoves already multiplying without ŭGACC or the EPA. These are
both technical advances not anticipated by Berkeley or the LP
Gas Association. Both groups assumed they could rely on poor
PM reports for all solid fuels
<i>ad infinitum</i>. Throw in the biochar benefits and
coal-based space heating IAQ gains, and the cauldron bubbles
with unexpected opportunities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:initial; line-height:initial;
text-align:initial">This probably wouldn't have happened
without GACC, which brought a lot of attention to the 'cause'.
ŭCould we/they have been more efficient? Of course, but there
are agendas everywhere. With (real) globalism all but dead,
the CAGW movement on the ropes, UN reform nowhere on the
horizon, the need for international arbitrary power centres
outside the Banks and Big corporations has never been greater.
That, my friend, is not a problem, it is an opportunity. </span></div>
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Quartz is a rather brash, pretentious webzine by and for
millennials who have yet to grow up. It seems to have a wide
readership and a big geographic footprint. So it is
significant that one of its reporters picked up Sarah
Morrison's ProPubica story on GACC and gave it this twist. <br>
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The author supposedly has a PhD in Chemistry from Oxford and
a BTech from ICT, Mumbai, but writes in the most facile
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After spending many of those millions in grants to
designers and academics, the alliance was able to offer
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<div>I don't know any evidence of GACC "spending many of those
millions in grants to designers and academics." This is a
canard. <br>
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As is the claim, "some cookstoves but they hardly reduced
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There is no evidence whether they did or did not. You can't
argue that people didn't like the stoves enough touse them
and that the stoves hardly reduced particulate emissions
(except in the trivial sense).<br>
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Burning propane produces greenhouse gases, which will
eventually accelerate climate change, but in the short
term it cuts particulate pollution, which will have
immediate benefits on peoples health.<span> </span></span> "</div>
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He is illiterate. Kirk Smith and colleagues pointed out in
2000 that GHG emissions on useful energy basis are LOWER for
propane than for uncontrolled woodfuel combustion, so long
as all VOCs are also counted along with CO2.<br>
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Smith and his colleagues said "If one were to put carbon in
the atmosphere anyway, CO2 is the least harmful of all
species, from both climate and health viewpoints. The policy
implications of this finding are profound."<br>
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Indeed. Amen.<br>
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The argument of fuel fetishists - renewable biomass versus
fossil LPG (or fossil-fired electricity) - is facetious. No
real cook gives a damn. There is too much individual-level
optimization of food, nutrition, time, water, jobs,
childcare, money going on in different contexts of time and
space to bother with the beancounters of efficiency or GWP.
(Besides, I would use 20- or even 5-year GWPs any day, to
reflect poor people's discount rates. Not something stovers
give any thought about."<br>
<br>
GACC was fueled partly by hubris, partly by cynical
exploitation of Hillary's name. (I don't believe US
government gave $50 m to GACC. Seems like another piece of
sloppy reporting by Morrison.)</div>
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I wonder who picked the "100 million clean cookstoves by
2020" target. Jacob Moss? Leslie Cordes? Tim Wirth?<br>
<br>
Back in July 2009, I was contacted by a consulting firm that
had an assignment from "the Secretary's Office" to do a
"feasibility report" on "1 million women entrepreneurs" to
sell "100 million" - BUT, if I recall correctly - stoves AND
solar LED lanterns. I was surprised then that it was not
from USAID but from the Secretary's office. I laughed off
both the targets for entrepreneurs and stoves, but suggested
that 100 million solar chargers for lighting and phones was
doable and desirable. <br>
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Monies are spent. Not on designers and academics, at least
not by GACC. By EPA, Winrock, who knows? For all its
failures, GACC was designed to fail. No surprise that Radha
Muthiah and Sumi Mehta have left. The rest have to fulfill
the contracts and go for greener biomass.</div>
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