My Dears, I need all your heads to help me think through this.
Whenever a new stove type enters our program… We need to collect data on that stove and the old kitchen.,
The typical ways to do that would be:
To record the amount of wood used for cooking during 1 week with old & new stove. This is called “Kitchen Performance Test” KPT.
To record the amount of wood used to bring a well defined volume of water to boil (e.g. 20 liters). This is called “Water Boiling Test” WBT.
I think we can do both. KPT with daily pictures of the woodpile (precise, but easy-to-fake, not verifiable), WBT in one long video (imprecise, but hard-to-fake, verifiable).
We will need to put down good instructions for this process… When we have that settled and everybody agreeing to go ahead, we can move ahead with the installs.
These tests & recordings are also what Dianey and Flawa will be doing with the first stoves in Kenya and Tanzania & what all new stove suppliers in Ghana do, with @adu_ernest recording those.
Reminder: The logic is data → carbon certificates → money… so data collection is the core task for to make this a business.
the priority is on crew for this phase - but as we discussed a resilient approach is one that allows for other stoves that have been proven to meet our minimal thermal efficiency and health enhancing criteria. Right?
@Reagan Let us try to define those steps precisely - ideally so that it can be used as a script and works for all schools under Vash Green School Project going forward.
