<div dir="ltr">Dr Lange: <br><br>Thank you for this. Thrilled to read your words - "
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">of course, when you get to know them, you find the Maasai women really don't like their houses. they want three room rectangular houses with, heaven forbid, wall space for furniture. and metal roofs, a</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">nd maybe a couple of windows.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> Up-keep of thatch is a real burden and there is no place for a comfortable bed in a little round house. so if they get better housing as they want, stove needs will change. We wish for their sake this would happen faster than it will. "</span> <div><br>This desire for different kind of housing may be the more important factor in changing stoves, fuels, and cooking patterns, than anything else in the last 40 years as new household formation in the population primarily using solid fuel for cooking and heating amounted to 1 billion (as couples, so a total of 2 billion people plus another billion or so children; about a billion people died, and another billion or so shifted to non-solid fuels.) <br><br>On the other hand, so long as chilly environs of the hills of Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Guatemala, Nepal are available for academic tourists, peer-reviewed papers and HAPIT consulting will continue to have a thriving market. <br><br>Why are so many HAP studies done on homes with not enough ventilation and considerable heating demands, I could never tell. Except that such climates are more hospitable and it is easier to model air circulation in one room rather than three. <br><br>That no stoves are abandoned out of 4,600 is a far better victory than any that could be certified by ISO TC-285. <br><br>Nikhil<br><br><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Nikhil Desai</font></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">(US +1) 202 568 5831</span><font face="georgia, serif"><br><i>Skype: nikhildesai888</i><br></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 10:41 AM Lange <<a href="mailto:rbtvl@aol.com">rbtvl@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Hello from the Maasai project<br><br>we are pretty happy with our model 4 stove. CO and Particulates are good if the cook uses the stove carefully, (How a woman actually cooks can't be ignored.) fuel is consumption good and burns are eliminated except for touching the hot cooking surface.<br><br>we have 4600 of our model 3 and model 4 stoves out in homes. And there are none abandoned. The stove continues to be what women want in their little unventilated houses.<br><br>But, of course, when you get to know them, you find the Maasai women really don't like their houses. they want three room rectangular houses with, heaven forbid, wall space for furniture. and metal roofs, a<span style="display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">nd maybe a couple of windows.</span> Up-keep of thatch is a real burden and there is no place for a comfortable bed in a little round house. so if they get better housing as they want, stove needs will change. We wish for their sake this would happen faster than it will. The sooner our stove is obsolete the better, but that is a long time away I am afraid.<br><br>We have designed remarkable effective and inexpensive chlorination systems and are installing them at their polluted ponds, and breeding a new better cow. People are ready to work for all sort of lifts from poverty and we are working to make as many of these efforts self-supporting as we can.<br><br>the stove, if you are interested is at <br><br><a>https://internationalcollaborative.org/our-work/stoves/</a><br><br>and our general website is <a>internationalcollaborative.org</a><br><br>yours<br><br>bob<br><br>Robert Lange<br>the ICSEE<br>Office of Programs and Development<br>705 Americana Drive Unit 5A<br>Annapolis MD 21403<br><br>ICSEE(Tanzania)<br>Monduli, Arusha, Tanzania<br><br><br><br> </div>
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