Coming of the Corporate Biomass Stoves – Mass Manufacturing to Save the Day?

For the last year or three there has been a huge amount of activity in what I call “corporate stoving” – it is not as if corporations of one kind or another have not always had wares for sale (certainly in the developed world!), but they have not always been this active in developing countries – the market certainly is huge, but the margins are uncertain and the customers non-traditional. I could speculate on their ulterior motives, but suffice to say they are welcome players – previously, improved fuel efficient stove programs which have resulted in disseminations of some few tens of thousands of stoves are considered very succcessful, a hundred thousand stoves is monumental, and only the Chinese have been capable of deploying millions of stoves.

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