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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>Pat, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We did have a “dead” period in which the server was not running and we didn’t realize it. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Congratulations and all the best with the birth. That is an exciting time for every family. <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><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 7:27 PM<br><b>To:</b> Anderson, Paul <psanders@ilstu.edu><br><b>Cc:</b> stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org; stoves-owner@lists.bioenergylists.org; Patricia McArdle <solarwind1@mac.com>; Charlie Sellers <csellers42@yahoo.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stoves] Is the Stoves list functioning again? RE: 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><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Paul,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve tried in the past to send a few messages to the stovers’ list serve and although I’m registered, they often bounce back. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So, today I decided to try both addresses.   I’m not sure which one got through. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sorry to have caused any confusion, I thought that some members of this list serve might find my video of interest.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I’m with my daughter, who is about to go into labor, and I wanted to get my new <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHdO_HaSqtQ">video</a> out this afternoon before the baby arrives.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>All the best,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Pat<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><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'>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'><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'> 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'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Feb 21, 2022, at 9:58 PM, Charlie Sellers <<a href="mailto:csellers42@yahoo.com">csellers42@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Working for me - and no recent problems; just quiet.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="ydpc5a867d8yahoo_quoted_5719114864"><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>On Monday, February 21, 2022, 06:02:06 PM PST, Anderson, Paul <<a href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu">psanders@ilstu.edu</a>> wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div id=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411><div><div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>Patricia and ALL,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>I am in favor of Retained  Heat Cookers.    But I write here about the STOVES LIST SERVE.    This is the FIRST message I have received in over 2 years.    Why did it come through?   (Note that Patricia sent to TWO addresses, and we do not know yet which one worked.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>Now we will  see if MY message reaches anyone?   Kirk, Dean, Tom, Christa, Ron, Crispin, Dave, and all the others.   Please reply so I / we know what has reached you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>I would love to seen the Stove listserv functional again!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>Doc / Dr TLUD / Paul S. Anderson, PhD --- Website:   <a href="http://www.drtlud.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>www.drtlud.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>         Email:  <a href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>psanders@ilstu.edu</span></a>       Skype:   paultlud<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>         Phone:  Office: 309-452-7072    Mobile & WhatsApp: 309-531-4434<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>Exec. Dir. of Juntos Energy Solutions NFP    Go to: <a href="http://www.juntosnfp.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>www.JuntosNFP.org</span></a>  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>Inventor of RoCC kilns and author of Biochar white paper :  See  <a href="http://www.woodgas.energy/resources" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>www.woodgas.energy/resources</span></a>   <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>Author of “<i>A Capitalist Carol</i>” (free digital copies at <a href="http://www.capitalism21.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>www.capitalism21.org</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>         with pages 88 – 94 about solving the world crisis for clean cookstoves. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> Patricia Mcardle <<a href="mailto:solarwind1@me.com">solarwind1@me.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 21, 2022 11:56 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>; <a href="mailto:stoves-owner@lists.bioenergylists.org">stoves-owner@lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> New You Tube video. Fuel efficient biomass stoves and retained heat cooking<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='background:#A6A6A6;padding:5.25pt 1.5pt 5.25pt 1.5pt'></td><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#EAEAEA;padding:5.25pt 3.75pt 5.25pt 11.25pt'><div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121'>You don't often get email from <a href="mailto:solarwind1@me.com" target="_blank">solarwind1@me.com</a>. <a href="http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification" target="_blank">Learn why this is important</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></td><td width=75 style='width:56.25pt;background:#EAEAEA;padding:5.25pt 3.75pt 5.25pt 3.75pt'></td></tr></table><div><div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#EB0000'>[This message came from an external source. If suspicious, report to <a href="mailto:abuse@ilstu.edu" target="_blank">abuse@ilstu.edu</a>] </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>Dear Stovers:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>You are invited to watch <a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DzHdO_HaSqtQ&data=04%7C01%7C%7C07056bd541db4027094e08d9f5637d32%7C085f983a0b694270b71d10695076bafe%7C1%7C0%7C637810631122815753%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=uo5WTAhjKF34Ueolcn1F5qWWr0MgVJXCtLouQ5XVR%2Bw%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">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></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#26282A'>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://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DXSMR2ANIZ7E&data=04%7C01%7C%7C07056bd541db4027094e08d9f5637d32%7C085f983a0b694270b71d10695076bafe%7C1%7C0%7C637810631122815753%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=o9Mlfc6prk9DosWHsjodozsQIBiFCrKiXE419e03QiM%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">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='background:#F9F9F9'>725,572 people had watched that video. </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#26282A;background:#F9F9F9'>I hope you’ll share both videos with your colleagues.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>  <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>Back in 2001, Dean Still</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#26282A'> inspired me with something he posted on the stovers’ list serve:  “<span style='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><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#26282A'>A few years ago, a crusty old U.S. Marine friend of mine in California, made a similar point about "<a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.appropedia.org%2FIntegrated_cooking&data=04%7C01%7C%7C07056bd541db4027094e08d9f5637d32%7C085f983a0b694270b71d10695076bafe%7C1%7C0%7C637810631122815753%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=J3jSPgHY0lK2O0v7Fhb3F3bwZ31EmWutrvQnBtx9VRE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">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?” </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#26282A'>An integrated cooking system is certainly more sustainable for the rural poor than the subsidized LPG that the late<a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVMJcx47hsPc&data=04%7C01%7C%7C07056bd541db4027094e08d9f5637d32%7C085f983a0b694270b71d10695076bafe%7C1%7C0%7C637810631122815753%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=xbAIHaweVBHfRmy4iU3CG8IsYGa%2B7RCoCi%2FVaL%2FbsMU%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"> 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://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcleancooking.org%2Freports-and-tools%2Fscaling-lpg-for-cooking-in-developing-markets%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C07056bd541db4027094e08d9f5637d32%7C085f983a0b694270b71d10695076bafe%7C1%7C0%7C637810631122815753%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=0yeDmVPkISpah5eDXU7JmKha8rPcQkTueZUJNm7AhXU%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">CCA) aggressively promoting LPG</a> in the developing world, but I guess that’s where the money is.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#26282A'>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. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=ydpc5a867d8yiv1967541411msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#26282A'>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.  </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;co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