Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener
50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
E-mail:
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Incorporating innovative
social, financial, economic, local administrative and productive structures,
numerous renewable energy applications, with an important role for women in
poverty alleviation in rural and poor urban environments.
"Money is not the key that
opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars them"
Gesell, Silvio The Natural
Economic Order
Revised English edition, Peter
Owen, London 1958, page 228
Edition 12:
03.04
Domestic cooking facilities.
Cooking
is the most energy intensive activity in the project area. Energy comes mostly
from (bio-mass sources, especially wood.) Large parts of meagre family incomes
are often spent on wood and charcoal for cooking. The wood comes from further
and further away. Its unsustainable use leads to de-forestation and erosion.
Moreover, traditional cooking methods are usually inefficient. The project
therefore introduces highly efficient stoves. They will be locally manufactured
within local currency LETS systems. Bio-mass needed to fuel the stoves will also
be locally produced and treated, without limiting the local production of natural fertilisers from local
agricultural production. Locally manufactured solar cookers will also be
introduced where daytime cooking does not contrast with local
customs.
(Description
of current methods for cooking, materials used, costs)
Cooking
is currently done by (description of facilities). Fuel for cooking comes from
(description of fuels used). Each family typically uses (amount) kg. per day
((amount) kg per year) of (fuels used). The typical cost of this fuel is
(amount) per (unit of weight) month, which is on an average ( %) of the family
income. The total consumption of (fuel) in the project area with (number
thousand families. It therefore amounts to (number) m3 of (fuel) per year, at a
global cost of Euro (amount).
An
important part of all (loan) repayments and expenditure under this project will
be funded by introducing energy efficient stoves and growing bio-mass for fuel.
The
gypsum composite production units will also manufacture energy efficient stoves.
The stoves will be made for pot sizes commonly used in the community. Each
family may buy as many stoves as it needs. The stoves will burn most kinds of
fuel though the preferred fuel will be mini-briquettes hand pressed by
individual homeowners or made by local tradesmen. Some crops will be sustainably
grown for use as fuel. They will then be mixed with straw, twigs, leaves, dung
and other available materials without reducing the amount of fertilisers
normally used for agriculture.
Solar
cookers may also be made under the LETS systems using gypsum composite
components, where daytime cooking is not in conflict with local customs
Forward: lighting
facilities in the project area.
Back: agricultural
production and storage facilities in the project area.
List of drawings and
graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key
words.
List of
abbreviations used.
Documents for
funding applications.