Here is the closing paragraph of the attachment:

Thus, I end by posing to the biomass stove community the same
challenge posed once to the Indian LPG community. It is not enough
just to have a cleaner cooking technology sitting in the shop, what is
needed is to find an effective way to promote and provide these clean
and efficient products to the 25 million households who will still need
them in 2025. The biomass stove industry is going to have to think
well beyond the technology itself, to how to disseminate at the scale
needed and promote consistent usage over time and reduce use of traditional
methods. In the places needed. To the women who need it.

This is WONDERFUL!!!   I will be responding in  great detail directly to Dr. Smith and via  the Stoves Listserv for all who are interested.  I start briefly now:

1.  The start of my response appeared a year ago (Sept 2016) when the Case Study of TLUD stoves in Deganga was placed on the Internet.   www.drtlud.com/deganga2016    Written in June 2016, its data now is nearly 1.5 years old.   And things are happening in that year and a half.   But please start with the Deganga Case Study.

2.  At the GACC Forum this month there is a presentation Tuesday PM about India stove activities, including as a presenter Mr. Moulindu Banerjee, the key implementaion partner in the Deganga efforts and subsequent work.   And at 7:30 AM on Wednesday I am leading a discussion about TLUD issues and accomplishments and potential.     Expect to learn about:

A.  Accepted success of the Deganga project as a pilot study with 11,000 TLUD stoves.

B.  Expansion into projects on-going now with approximately 3000 new stoves PER MONTH.  The limits on the number of stoves are mainly financial regarding the overall project size.  Industrial capacity for stove production is plentiful in India.

C.  Adoption (that is, acceptance) of the stoves is between 50% and 70% of all of the households in the communities to which the sales offer is made.  The populations are mainly rural poor and peri-urban working poor.  There is no shortage of potential  users / adopters.

D.  The consistent and continual daily usage of these stoves is DOCUMENTED as part of the requirements for the carbon credit funding.   This is ongoing for about 5 years in the Deganga households.   These stoves in West Bengal are the “Champion TLUD” that has been manufactured since 2008.  They are TLUD-ND (natural draft) stoves.  

E.   Additoinal projects fpr 25,000 TLUD stoves each are signed or are in the process of being signed.   Please respect that some implementation information is considered confidential and propriety for business purposes.  These are NOT charity projects, but they are conducted largely by Not-For-Profit entities and humanitarians that do maintain budgets to assure sustaianability.

3.  Yes, these stoves are very clean burning.  Not perfect, but they are micro-gasifiers, not some simple ICS stoves.   They are among the “MACCS” (Modern Advanced Clean Cooking Solutions).  Who says so?   Well, the GACC and ESMAP jointly published in 2015 a classification system, which I have expanded and reorgnized for clarity of message.    If you do a Google search for       stove classification     the 4th and 5th items down both lead to my documents  

https://woodgas.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Stove-Classification-1-page-2017-04-11.pdf

https://www.drtlud.com/?resource=prt17301       (which also links to a 4-page version)

4.  For even superior cleanliness of emissions, the TLUD stoves can be with  forced air (or fan assistance).   TLUD-FA stoves will be FEATURED at the GACC Forum.   See them Tuesday evening at the reception and “lighting of the stoves.”  The latest from  Mimi-Moto TLUD-FA and from Lello’s FAABulous stove  (TLUD-FAAB) will be seen, plus more.  

[ Important note:   The TLUD stoves do NOT include the “fan jet” high turbulance stoves such as the Philips or ACE or Biolite stoves. ]

I am trying to have everything in  order for the Forum, with announcements posted to the Stoves Listserv before or during that event.

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Therefore, based on  the above, I totally welcome Kirk Smith’s challenge that biomass stove developers

have to think
well beyond the technology itself, to how to disseminate at the scale
needed and promote consistent usage over time and reduce use of traditional
methods.

 Soon I will present

a.  more supporting evidence,

b.  calling attention to fuel supply chain issues,

c.  dissemination at needed scale, and

d.  the financial arrangements already proven and others “in the  works” to accomplish the task. 

Of course, all other Stovers are welcome to respond to Kirk Smith’s challenge.   They are also very welcome to participate in the TLUD efforts.

OBJECTIVE:  To provide the information so that Dr. Smith and others can realize that at least one set of biomass cookstoves, (the TLUD micro-gasifiers), can meet and exceed the challenge.   25 million TLUD stoves for India is a nice target.   Opportunities in other countries are certainly also present.

Paul