Stoves for Darfur

[keird]

A recent CNN article made me look up this stove design

Although the refugees are relatively safe inside the refugee camps, they risk murder and rape when they leave to fetch firewood. To reduce the amount of firewood the refugees need, Berkeley Lab scientist Ashok Gadgil modified an existing cookstove design to create one that is 75% more energy- efficient stove than the three-stone stove traditionally used in Darfur, and is appropriate to the environmental conditions and food preferences of the local inhabitants.

It made me think of the Super MoneyMaker Pump and what that's done for the emerging populations.

The Super MoneyMaker Pump is a manual treadle pump that will direct water to where it is needed, pulling water from a depth of seven meters and lifting it up fourteen meters above the water source. No fuel or electricity is required to operate the pump. The pump can irrigate a two-acre area over an eight-hour period. Over 50,000 Super MoneyMaker Pumps have been shipped to customers all over the world, and, based on KickStart?s impact-monitoring studies, there are an estimated 35,000 households starting profitable small farm businesses using pumps to irrigate their fruits and vegetables during the dry season. By greatly increasing the yield, growing higher-value crops, and growing year round, these families have increased their net farm income from $110 to $1,100 per year?lifting themselves out of poverty.

Good news for philanthropists.

 

[gingermeggs]

sorry arms manufacturers beat you to the buzzer.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

I looked at the link and I didn't get a good idea of what they are doing with the stove but hopefully they are a version of a woodgas stove linky
These types of stoves are efficient and produce a lot less smoke than traditional wood fired stoves.

 

[keird]

Originally posted by: gingermeggs
sorry arms manufacturers beat you to the buzzer.

Ah. I'm glad to see I didn't lose you to that other thread. But stoves don't usually bring out the cyber muggings.

 

[keird]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
I looked at the link and I didn't get a good idea of what they are doing with the stove but hopefully they are a version of a woodgas stove linky
These types of stoves are efficient and produce a lot less smoke than traditional wood fired stoves.

Yeah, I think these stoves are along those lines, but bigger and able to cook an entire pot at once. I can't tell if they're using an aluminium pot or a cast-iron one. Cast iron is dark grey when new. Not shiny silver like in the pic.

 

[ericlp]

I hear they have a LOT of sunlight down there. Why not just give them some SOLAR stoves?

http://www.solarcookers.org/basics/how.html

doesn't get much more efficient then that.

 

[jpeyton]

Here's an even less expensive solution.

 

[keird]

Originally posted by: ericlp
I hear they have a LOT of sunlight down there. Why not just give them some SOLAR stoves?

http://www.solarcookers.org/basics/how.html

doesn't get much more efficient then that.

Maybe they like to cook at night. I think that the Sun is used to make water potable. They just throw plastic bottles filled with water on a tin roof and let it cook for a day. Allow it to cool and it's drinkable.