[Stoves] Commercialation

[Tom Miles]

Richard,

Don didn't know the details. It will be interesting to find out about it.
Someone went to the trouble to put up the display. 

If the hardware stores donate money to an organization that can make the
appliances available for sale in villages then that's a positive effort on
their part.
 
Tom  
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Stanley [mailto:rstanley at legacyfound.org] 
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 1:43 PM
To: tmiles at trmiles.com
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Commercialation

Tom, et al,
I think is that unless the good end user is to  be financed on the 
basis of savings in fuel
costs by the commercial lending institution, or the good donor 
community decides to subsidise them,
  stoves will wind up being copied before they are going to be  
purchased by the masses who need them.

In lieu of either of the above support systems, (and I know of no 
commercial institution so noble, nor a donor so wealthy to reach the 
real mass market),  the would be stove producers might  want to 
consider making and selling training (how to make, use and maintain) 
manuals,  rather than trying to make and distribute the product...with 
all that implies for management, inventory control, and legal 
protection in these dicey times.

Richard Stanley
www/legacyfound.org






On Aug 26, , at 10:28 AM, Tom Miles wrote:

> Thanks Don
>
> See image at: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
>
> The sign says "together we break the circle of poverty." Does that mean
> people at the hardware store buy the stoves for others, or for 
> themselves?
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don O'Neal [mailto:dononeal at usa.net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 6:08 AM
> To: Tom Miles; ethos at vrac.iastate.edu
> Cc: 'STOVES'
> Subject: Commercialation
>
> Thought you might be interested in the HELPS stove, retained heat 
> cooker and
>
> water filter being sold through a major hardware chain in Guatemala.
>
> Regards Don
>
>
>
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