Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The Netherlands.
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: 01
November 2006
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
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