Save the wood burning stove for rainy days

By webmaster Thursday June 18th 2009 12:34 Central European Time

Today CNN has an article about Dean Still and the Aprovecho Research Center, who have won a $65,000 eco award for a cleaner wood burning stove. From the picture in the article it looks like the stove is based on the rocket stove principle.

Such a stove will undoubtedly, reduce indoor air pollution from cooking over an open fire, a big health problem in developing countries.. But may I still suggest that they save the stove for rainy days. In places with a lot of sunshine a simple solar cooker will be the best device for cooking on the days when the weather is nice, since it requires no firewood or fuel at all.

You could also combine the solar cooker and the stove with a, so called, heat retention cooker. A heat retention cooker is also called a hay basket. Most of the people who ever were boy or girl scouts have probably used one.

Links
Teaching 3D cooking in the Philippines
Aprovecho Research Center
Wikipedia article on rocket stoves
Integrated solar cooking