[Stoves] The PROTOS Plant Oil Cooker

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Friends

I have a principled objection to the following claim:

>BSH presents the capacity, fuel use and emissions for the plant oil cooker
>as follows:

[snip]

>Emissions: ten times lower than with high quality kerosene

Emissions of what?  Compared with what?

I have noticed that many, in fact nearly all, publications, articles and 
emails written on the subject of comparing whatever stove or fuel is being 
discussed, always refers to how polluting/smokey/emissive "paraffin" is.

Jet planes run on paraffin.  If a stove is not burning it cleanly it is the 
fault of the stove, not the fuel.

Now, how can we understand what the emissions of a BSH stove are?  Is this 
when compared with a Panda or equivalent?  One of the Indian pressure 
stoves? Some wick stove with a poor emissions profile?

There are quite a number of really clean-burning paraffin stoves on the 
market.  My observation is that people promoting ethanol or LPG or natural 
gas or vegetable oil like to compare their performance against a stinking 
Panda.  Well, why not compare them with other stoves in the same price 
range?  That seems to be a bit more fair.

Sorry for sounding off but we have to be realistic in our claims.

Regards
Crispin