Shell results

["Paul S. Anderson" <psanders@ilstu.edu>]

Stovers (all of whom are my friends),

Let me be the first person to report the results of a proposal to the Shell 
Foundation for the "Home Energy and Health" program.

The "Juntos Gasifier Stove...." proposal did not make it past this first 
cut.  They do not give much feedback (understandably because they had over 
300 proposals).  They did say that "It was felt that    your project makes 
a strong case for providing energy services and/or equipment. However, the 
financing mechanism for service/product delivery is less developed."  Shell 
indicated that it wants geographic balance of the projects funded, and 
pretty clear sustainability of the funded projects at the end of the 3 years.

Best wishes to those who are getting the invitation to continue with their 
proposal.  If you can see any link in which a small combustion chamber (as 
is the Juntos gasifier) can be of POSSIBLE use to your project, please 
contact me and I will supply inputs at no charge, and I might even do any 
mutually agreed upon work at no charge.

I head to Africa on 4 July for 3 months.  I just had to know the Shell 
proposal results.  So I sent an e-mail to the following address and 
received a digital copy of their letter.  I live in central USA, so 
snail-mail delivery to me should be about as good as it gets (except for 
those who live in Europe).  I have no idea of when the actual letter will 
arrive.

<SEP@si.shell.com>

By the way, I do have an approved US$10,000 grant from Rotary for 
Gasifier/biomass stove work in southern Africa.  I will be busy with stoves 
work (plus my geography teaching work about maps). but on a more limited 
budget than what Shell would have provided.

Again,  best wishes to all of you who are still in the running.  I hope 
that you will keep the Stoves list serve informed.  I believe that much 
assistance for any project will come when people are openly discussing 
their activities.

Sincerely,

Paul
Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D.,  Fulbright Prof. to Mozambique 8/99 - 7/00
Rotary University Teacher Grantee to Mozambique >10 mo of 2001-2003
Dept of Geography - Geology (Box 4400), Illinois State University
Normal, IL  61790-4400   Voice:  309-438-7360;  FAX:  309-438-5310
E-mail: psanders@ilstu.edu - Internet items: www.ilstu.edu/~psanders


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