I expect that the faster a stove improves the economic status of a user, the 
faster the stove will sell.  Environmental and health benefits, while very 
desirable, are too slow to reveal themselves and thus create demand.  
Improvements in social status would also help to increase the rate of 
diffusion/adoption.

With sufficient economic benefit to the user, a profit rent included in the 
cost of the stove would not be problem.  If, however, the cost of the profit 
rent substantially delays the net positive economic benefit to the user, then 
it will be a problem.

In any case, a stoves ultimate adoption/diffusion will depend on very careful 
leveraging of the enduser's assets, in terms of both financial and human 
capital.  It is clearly the case that there is insufficient will in the 
developed world to commit the resources required to get the job done.


Cheers,

Jock

Jock Gill
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> On Jan 5, 2014, at 5:54 PM, Richard Stanley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Paal, what if we were able to reach the so called beneficiaries with no coca 
> cola sponsored margin? 
> Stupid eh . See you all on the network of the rest of us!
> Richard
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jan 5, 2014, at 13:17, "Paal Wendelbo" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>  Dear all
>> 
>> From the very starting up, Mss. Clinton launched the GACC program as cheap 
>> clean burning 100 M stoves program, realized with marked economy and the 
>> Coca Cola business as a model. In practical that would be centralized 
>> activity. Type of fuel was not mentioned at all. WB and MF are just 
>> interested in min 10-15 % profit at the activities they support. That’s why 
>> GACC need others advisers as well:  From the stovers through ETHOS they will 
>> get everything about clean cooking stoves, from RS they will get everything 
>> about fuel and briquettes, from Crispin everything about emission, from Ron 
>> everything about biochar and from the whole group at the stove list, tyey 
>> will get: how to run decentralized stove projects; stoves, fuel and the cook 
>> in one unit in order to create clean cooking and income generating 
>> activities for the low income population, by utilize local resources 
>> manpower and local available energy resources.
>> 
>> Best regards Paal W
>> 
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