Agreeing with Ron. Liquid biofuels, and specially ethanol can be an alternative cooking and lighting fuel, either produced at large scale or at the community level with micro-distilleries.
Project Gaia have demonstrated to me an efficient ethanol cookstove and also an ethanol lamp, and I have seeing here ethanol power generators in operation. Here in Brazil ethanol produced at farm level can be around US$ 0,50 per liter Rogério 2013/12/4 Ronal W. Larson <[email protected]> > Nari and list: > > 1. I write to disagree with your conclusion on fossil fuels. They > are “best” (in several senses, not including being cheaper) mainly because > their externality costs are borne by all of society. > > 2. I was surprised at first to see this view attributed to the NY > Times. This was the view of Bjorne Lomborg who claims not to be a climate > skeptic - but sure writes like one. > > 3. I do agree that kerosene has many advantages to go with their > disadvantages. A way to move to a majority of advantages is to call for > liquid fuels rather than fossil fuels. These can have a biomass origin, > and (especially in rural areas) can also be cheaper. > > Ron > > > On Dec 4, 2013, at 6:23 PM, nari phaltan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi stovers, > > A recent NYT article echoes what we have observed while working with rural > poor in India - they need excellent and convenient fuel for cooking and > lighting. Sometimes fossil fuels are the best. > www.nariphaltan.org/kerosene.pdf > > Here is the NYT article; > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/opinion/the-poor-need-cheap-fossil-fuels.html?hp&rref=opinion > > Cheers. > > Anil > > Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) > Tambmal, Phaltan-Lonand Road > P.O.Box 44 > Phaltan-415523, Maharashtra, India > Ph:91-2166-222396/220945/222842 > e-mail:[email protected] > [email protected] > > http://www.nariphaltan.org > _______________________________________________ > Stoves mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: > http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Stoves mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: > http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/ > > >
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