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Partnership for Clean Indoor Air
"More than half of the world’s population—three billion people—cook their food and heat their homes by burning coal and biomass, including wood, dung, and crop residues, in open fires or rudimentary stoves. Indoor burning of solid fuels releases dangerous particulate matter, carbon monoxide, and other toxic pollutants, and releases greenhouse gases into the air. The resulting indoor air pollution levels are 20 to 100 times greater than the World Health Organization’s (WHO) air quality guidelines allow. Unfortunately, the health risks and threats to the environment are on the rise: the International Energy Agency estimates that 200 million more people will use these fuels by 2030.
WHO estimates that 1.5 million people die prematurely each year from exposure to indoor smoke from burning solid fuels. In fact, indoor air pollution from household energy is ranked fourth in the list of serious threats to health in less developing countries, after malnutrition, unsafe sex, and unsafe water. Women and children face the greatest risks. Breathing unsafe levels of smoke indoors more than doubles a child’s risk of serious respiratory infection and is associated with pregnancy problems, such as stillbirth and low-weight babies."
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RocketStove.org
"Welcome to RocketStove.org, the online community for the promotion of fuel efficient biomass technologies for cooking heating and drying . We are a volunteer community who strive to bring fuel technologies to the developing world..."
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Improved Biomass Stoves
An excellent source of information and links about "Research and Development on Fuel Efficient Stoves for the Developing World"
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Pop-Up Foster's Pot and Fin Shells
YouTube video about a finned pot made from beer cans that improves the efficiency of almost any burner.
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NòvaVideo - Nat Mulcahy e la LuciaStove
Best if you understand Italian. This is a 10 minute YouTube video demonstrating the operation of the Lucia Stove made by WorldStove. It is very interesting even without translation (which we are hoping to obtain).
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Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight
NY Times article about removing soot from the environment through improved indoor open-fire cooking stoves in developing societies.
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The Terrra Preta Pot
This is a website about an amazingly simple ceramic cooking stove that also makes biochar. It was developed by Laurens Rademakers. The website is new, but there are some inspiring photographs of the stove in action. This link could also go in the biochar section.
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Oven Stoves
"An oven stove is a very efficient and robust oven that radiates heat all day. In the US it was introduced only 20 years ago, but in Europe the technology is almost one thousand years old. Especially in Russia, Scandinavia and Central Europe the oven stove has a long and rich tradition.
"In the 18th century, several European governments financed research to improve the technology, as a way to overcome an acute shortage of firewood: ecotech before the term existed. However, its further development and distribution was thwarted by the arrival of coal, gas and oil. Oven stoves are large, heavy and slow, but they offer so many advantages that they – again - deserve to be subsidized by the government."
A beautifully illustrated article.
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2009 SeaChar Stoves Workshop with Dr. Paul Anderson
"On Saturday, August 1, Seachar hosted Dr. Paul Anderson (Dr. TLUD) for an all-day workshop in the construction of Top-Lit Up Draft (TLUD) cookstoves. The stoves can quickly be constructed from commonly available materials, and produce charcoal while providing heat for cooking (or other uses). Paul’s TLUD stoves have been tested and shown to produce very low emissions of CO and particulates. The stoves can provide benefits wherever people rely on biomass for cooking. TLUD stoves use a wide variety of small pieces of biomass for fuel. The clean burn greatly improves indoor air quality compared with open burning and many other types of stoves. In addition, the charcoal can be used as biochar to improve soil fertility, sequester carbon, and potentially provide a source of income through carbon credits."
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