Yeah, I've always thought this was an interesting conversation.
One anecdote:
In designing gasifiers for rural brick-makers, I found that "ugly" in
the sense of "looks industrial" was not necessarily a bad thing: the
operators and mechanics were happy to see that the device /looked like
something they were familiar with/. Hence, they could maintain it,
modify it, etc.
Of course, this was a product for small industry, not for consumers. The
same reasoning may not hold for a household customer.
-marc
On 3/22/13 12:22 PM, Josh Kearns wrote:
Thought stovers would like to know of a parallel conversation going on
in the WASH sector....
http://www.source.irc.nl/page/77512
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Josh Kearns
PhD Candidate, Environmental Engineering
University of Colorado-Boulder
Visiting Researcher, North Carolina State University
Director of Science
Aqueous Solutions
www.aqsolutions.org <http://www.aqsolutions.org>
Mobile: 720 989 3959
Skype: joshkearns
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