Over a week ago I sent a message (attached as a Word document) with this title and first paragraph:
Recognize Clean Cooking with Renewable Solid Fuels 2017-09-29
We need to deliver a message to the world that any discussion of access to clean fuel sources for cooking MUST include recognition that renewable solid fuels (mainly wood / pellet / chips, but including some forms of agro-refuse) are also highly clean burning in modern advanced cookstoves. So, the topic is correctly stated as “clean cookstoves and fuels”, but it is often reduced to be only “clean fuels,” which is very misleading.
Is this not one of the top five issues of this Stoves Listserv????
Well, the response has been totally UNDERwelming. TWO. Yes, a total of 2 people sent comments directly to me (without wanting to become involved) and ZERO comments on the Stoves Listserv.
Does that tell us something about ourselves? Maybe:
1. People do not read the Stoves List messages.
2. My message content is not clear, or maybe too long, or maybe something else.
3. The topic is really not of interest to biomass Stovers.
4. Biomass Stovers have given up and now accept biomass being regarded as a “dirty fuel”.
5. Readers are in such total agreement with what I wrote that they feel no need to comment.
6. Something else: ________ fill in the blank _________________
7. All of the above.
So, I am writing again. (Stupid Anderson, he will never learn.)
I conclude with what is at the end of my document from last week:
7. What next????
a. Discussion will be at the Stoves Listserv. (If comments are sent directly to me at psanders@ilstu.edu , I might post them with your name attached.)
b. Who will help carry this message forward? Please speak up. Some assistance is needed.
c. To whom should this message be sent (as is or improved): One person is Sophie Edwards the journalist who wrote the 18 September 2017 item about Rachel Kyte.. And also send to Rachel Kyte.
d. Perhaps a “Declaration of Clean Cooking with Wood” could be prepared, and presented for endorsement / adoption by organizations and persons. (Suggest a better name??)
e. Whatever is next, we need to utilize the format and facilities of the GACC, including the Forum in Delhi. This is what the GACC is all about: With emphasis on the word CLEAN, we are all seeking to have clean cookstoves reaching even those people who only have biomass fuels for daily cooking. And this can be done with existing methods, etc., that will be further improved with the feedback from the woodgas stove users.
Paul
Recognize-Clean-Cooking-with-Renewable-Solid-Fuels-2017.docx