[Stoves] The other side of airpollution

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Andrew
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From: "AJH" <list at sylva.icuklive.co.uk>
To: "Discussion of biomass cooking stoves" <stoves at listserv.repp.org>

...del...
>
> The fact is that the standards that we in the developed world use are
> too expensive for the developing world, they reflect our compact with
> our peers that we will look after each other in agreeing to abide by
> certain rules. What is hidden in that agreement is the *need* for
> cheap energy but that's a philosophical point with no place on
> [stoves] which seeks to find solutions for the disadvantaged on an
> already strained planet.

I would suggest that most of the "stove regulations" are implemented for 
health and fire safety reasons. We say that we are trying to reduce IAP, yet 
we propose conditions for the Third World users that would be intolerable 
and unacceptable by our own Standards.

We wonder why our Lab Tests produce "good stoves" yet they fail in the 
Field.

Duh.

What do you think would happen if the various stove development agencies 
were not paid for work done, but rathewr, for work accepted by the intended 
end user?

Kevin