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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Patricia, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s great to hear from you. Many thanks for the video link and story. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kind regards, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>T R Miles Technical Consultants Inc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Portland, OR 97225<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>Cel/VM 503-780-8185<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:tmiles@trmiles.com"><span lang=FR style='color:#0563C1'>tmiles@trmiles.com</span></a><span lang=FR><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.trmiles.com/"><span lang=FR style='color:#0563C1'>www.trmiles.com</span></a><span lang=FR><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Stoves <mailman-bounces@bio.bioenergylists.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Patricia Mcardle<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 21, 2022 9:56 AM<br><b>To:</b> stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org; stoves-owner@lists.bioenergylists.org<br><b>Subject:</b> SPAM: ***SPAM*** New You Tube video. Fuel efficient biomass stoves and retained heat cooking<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Stovers:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>You are invited to watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHdO_HaSqtQ">my latest You Tube video</a> (<i>10 minutes</i>) which explains how to reduce cooking time and save significant amounts of fuel by using a home-made retained heat basket to finish cooking pots of food that have been brought to a rolling boil for twenty minutes over a fire. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"BookmanOldStyle",serif'>In this video, I've included a photo of the late, great Larry Winiarski teaching a group of Mexican women how to make retained heat baskets. I took that photo in 2008 when Larry and I were in Mexico together on a Rotary project. During that trip, I filmed my very first and still most popular <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSMR2ANIZ7E">You Tube video</a>. It shows Larry teaching the women how to make a 16-brick rocket stove. The last time I checked <span style='color:black;background:#F9F9F9'>725,572 people had watched that video. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"BookmanOldStyle",serif;color:black;background:#F9F9F9'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"BookmanOldStyle",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"BookmanOldStyle",serif;color:black;background:#F9F9F9'>I hope you’ll share both videos with your colleagues.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Back in 2001, Dean Still<span style='font-family:"BookmanOldStyle",serif'> inspired me with something he posted on the stovers’ list serve: “<span style='color:black;background:white'>In a perfect world, perhaps with a great, non-polluting wood stove, would come a retained heat cooker (Haybox), a solar oven for baking and a parabolic or conical reflector for boiling water...Whole package might cost $100 which is dinner and a movie for some folks.</span>” </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"BookmanOldStyle",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"BookmanOldStyle",serif'>A few years ago, a crusty old U.S. Marine friend of mine in California, made a similar point about "<a href="https://www.appropedia.org/Integrated_cooking">integrated cooking</a>" with a slightly different twist: "If you give my neighbor a pile of wood and a fuel efficient biomass stove—and, you give me the same amount of wood and the same biomass stove, but I also have a solar cooker and a retained heat container, guess who'll run out of wood first?” <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"BookmanOldStyle",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"BookmanOldStyle",serif'>An integrated cooking system is certainly more sustainable for the rural poor than the subsidized LPG that the late<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMJcx47hsPc"> Kirk Smith aggressively promoted</a> with his mantra to “make the clean (<i>LPG</i>) available instead of "making the available (<i>wood</i>) clean”. It’s disheartening to see the former GACC (now the <a href="https://cleancooking.org/reports-and-tools/scaling-lpg-for-cooking-in-developing-markets/">CCA) aggressively promoting LPG</a> in the developing world, but I guess that’s where the money is.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"BookmanOldStyle",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"BookmanOldStyle",serif'>I remember back in January 2011, at the DOE-sponsored Biomass Stoves Technical meeting many of us attended, when I was asked by Sam Baldwin to refrain from even mentioning the words "solar cooking" during the two-day meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"BookmanOldStyle",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"BookmanOldStyle",serif'>I complied with his request, but when one of the speakers proposed adding a ’simmer’ function to the stoves, I raised my hand and suggested that it might be more cost effective to teach people how to make and use retained heat baskets rather than trying to engineer a ’simmer’ function that would eventually break. My suggestion was also shot down. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://solarcooking.fandom.com/wiki/Patricia_McArdle"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>Patricia McArdle</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"BookAntiqua",serif;color:black'>Author, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/06/04/136928898/farishta-afghan-fiction-from-the-foreign-service">Farishta</a>, a novel about Afghanistan<br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:black'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_tLie5msnr6QwhEWPZIzIg/videos?view=0&sort=p">Videographer</a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"BookAntiqua",serif;color:black'> renewable energy<br>Member Global Advisory Council, <a href="https://www.solarcookers.org/about/team/sci-global-advisor-council/patricia-mcardle">Solar Cookers International</a><br>Board of Advisors, <a href="http://www.she-inc.org/?page_id=293">Solar Household Energy</a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>