In the annual compendium on Environment published by The Hindu, Senior Assistant Editor N Gopal Raj writes that the concern about the impact of indoor air pollution is now finding an answer in improved cook stove technologies that increases thermal efficiency and lowers emissions.
The report quotes the forthcoming paper by Dr Venkataraman and others in Energy for Sustainable Development as pointing out that the "unmet challenge of delivering clean cooking energy for the poor continues to loom large. Given the projected dominance of solid biomass as the cooking energy source for a majoriuty of Indians, there remains the need for ensuring the availability of stove technologies that can deliver truly superior performance, both in terms of thermal efficiency and emissions as well as effective delivery mechanisms."
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