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Financing The Optimal Cookstove
Ted Redelmeier
How can the Optimal Cookstove be Financially
Viable?
Gasifier + Rice Husk = <3
Working Hypothesis:If(optimal cook stove)Then
{(minimize respiratory disease) + (efficient use biomass feedstock) + (carbon sequestration) + (soil restoration) + (rural poverty alleviation)}
Optimal Cookstove => Char CreationOptimal Cookstove => Income Generation
“Equal & Opposites”
[C+] + [C-] = [C=]
“Equal & Opposites”
[C++] = [C++]
“Equal & Opposites”
[C++] + [C--] = [C==]
$Trillions in Foreign Aid Over the Last 50 Years
When we’re used to gifts we get an attitude of entitlement
Microfinance: A Couple of Characteristics
➔ Alleviates poverty??➔ Reduced transactions costs of serving
the poor
The Cookstove must Cook AND Generate Revenue
The Dilemma of the Inequality
The Inequality:
$[char as heat and electricity] >=< $[char as C--] and $[char as biochar]
No markets for the RHS, wherever there is available woody biomass [char as heat and electricity] is made and there is a local market for charcoal.
Therefore no biochar, no carbon sequestration.
Hypothetical Rice Farming Family
Hypothetical Family Gets an Optimal Cookstove
Rice Husk - Cookstove - Biochar - [C--]
[C--] Agent Exchanges $ and [C--] property with [Ted]
[C--] Bought And Sold
Carbon “Offsets” vs. Carbon “Equal & Opposites”
The Difference Between Substitutes and Complements
OFFSETS
• Does nothing to remove CO2 from the short term carbon cycle
• Only succeed in changing the rate of C++ activities
• Attempt to substitute net or inherently carbon neutral energy for C++ energy;
EQUAL & OPPOSITES
• Permanently removes CO2 from the short term carbon cycle
• Acts to complement C++ activities with C-- activities
• [C--] is a complement to [C++], facilitates the creation of a universal energy market that is uniformly carbon neutral [C=] and [C==]
Scaling up the Numbers
Financing The Optimal Cookstove
Ted Redelmeier