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Financing The Optimal Cookstove Ted Redelmeier

This study explores how the optimal cookstove can become financially viable, linking gasifier and rice husk technologies to minimize respiratory diseases, enhance biomass use efficiency, promote carbon sequestration, aid soil restoration, and alleviate rural poverty. By focusing on char creation and income generation, the project endeavors to bridge the gap between cooking needs and revenue generation. It also delves into the complexities of inequality in energy usage and biochar market limitations. In proposing a hypothetical scenario involving a rice farming family, the study highlights the potential symbiosis between various carbon activities and underscores the importance of financial mechanisms like microfinance. Through a detailed analysis of carbon offsets and complements, the study emphasizes the need for long-term sustainability in combating climate change.

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Financing The Optimal Cookstove Ted Redelmeier

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  1. Financing The Optimal CookstoveTed Redelmeier

  2. How can the Optimal Cookstove be Financially Viable?

  3. Gasifier + Rice Husk = <3

  4. 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

  5. “Equal & Opposites” [C+] + [C-] = [C=]

  6. “Equal & Opposites” [C++] = [C++]

  7. “Equal & Opposites” [C++] + [C--] = [C==]

  8. $Trillions in Foreign Aid Over the Last 50 Years

  9. When we’re used to gifts we get an attitude of entitlement

  10. Microfinance: A Couple of Characteristics • Alleviates poverty?? • Reduced transactions costs of serving the poor

  11. The Cookstove must Cook AND Generate Revenue

  12. 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.

  13. Hypothetical Rice Farming Family

  14. Hypothetical Family Gets an Optimal Cookstove

  15. Rice Husk - Cookstove - Biochar - [C--]

  16. [C--] Agent Exchanges $ and [C--] property with [Ted]

  17. [C--] Bought And Sold

  18. 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==] 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;

  19. Scaling up the Numbers

  20. Financing The Optimal CookstoveTed Redelmeier

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