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Some 400,000 people in rural Cuba currently do not have reliable electric supply. Moreover, they use fuelwood in traditional inefficient and smoky cookstoves. This paper proposes a technological concept comprising a biomass gasifier to supply fuel to an engine generator to provide electricity to the village. Waste heat would be recovered from the engine and put to use. Thus the gas engine would operate...