At several places in Paul Anderson’s book, A Capitalist Carol, there are references to low-tech, smoky cooking stoves that are still used today by three billion impoverished people around the world, about forty percent of the world’s population. The sub-theme is that there is a new cookstove technology that is readily-adopted in limited-scope projects and available NOW for scale-up efforts. This clean-burning cookstove (see photo) is based on TLUD (pronounced “tee-lud”) technology, and it has demonstrated positive, sustainable results, especially with the poorest people who need the most help. But financial support is lacking, even though there are literally billions of “pledged” but unspecified philanthropic dollars (as mentioned in the story).