<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Dear Paul:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">In my view, the following aspects comes to mind when selecting a stove for a particular project:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Cultural aspects: what type of cooking is done: frying, cooking, oven baking or baking over a griddle? The ergonomics of the cooking: at table level or ground level?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Socio economics: will the community pay for the stove, partial pay or no payment at all? My experience is that when people do not pay anything, the care of the stove is more likely neglected, versus when there is some cost-sharing the beneficiary does take better care of the stove. We have had cases where we had to reinforce our casted concrete stoves against border breakage with a metal border, due to poor care by extremely poor beneficiaries. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Geography: Is the weather cold (indoor cooking) or hot (outdoor cooking), and the ventilation patterns? Stove with lateral heat loss may be interesting for space heating, and for outdoors cooking a chimney may not be necessary.....</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Fuel availability: Will there be plenty of fuel available and at what cost? What type of fuel does the stove need? Some stoves, for instance, may need very small firewood sticks, and perhaps beneficiaries may be resistant to spending time splitting the wood. There are cases that beneficiaries modified the stove fuel entrance, for larger firewood, which changed the stove performance.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Stove assembly: An off the shelf stove will be easier, faster and cheaper to install? or a localy built stove that may require a stove master to set it up?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Just some quick thoughts about it....</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Rogério</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Em qua., 17 de nov. de 2021 às 12:32, Paul Arveson <<a href="mailto:paularveson@gmail.com">paularveson@gmail.com</a>> escreveu:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_3287688392235820836WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Colleagues:<br>I would like to know if any of you have prepared a document to guide project planners in selecting an appropriate stove for a particular location. What site and user considerations are important? <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Paul Arveson<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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