April 2009

Project Surya Solar Stoves

19 April 2009 - 5:47pm

Project Surya: Reduction of Air Pollution and Global warming by Cooking with Renewable SourcesV. Ramanathan and K.

Black Carbon Emissions Reduction Act of 2009

19 April 2009 - 5:08pm

HR 1760 Black Carbon Emissions Reduction Act of 2009

formerly American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 March 31, 2009, US House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce

See Bill Attached

f) International Black Carbon Mitigation-

(1) REPORT- Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator, in coordination with the Secretary of State and other appropriate Federal agencies, shall transmit a report to Congress on the amount, type, and direction of all present United States financial, technical, and related assistance to foreign countries to reduce, mitigate, and otherwise abate black carbon emissions.

(2) OTHER OPPORTUNITIES- The report required under paragraph (1) shall also identify opportunities and recommendations, including action under existing authorities, to achieve significant black carbon emission reductions in foreign countries through technical assistance or other approaches to--

(A) promote sustainable solutions to bring clean, efficient, safe, and affordable stoves, fuels, or both stoves and fuels to residents of developing countries that are reliant on solid fuels such as wood, dung, charcoal, coal, or crop residues for home cooking and heating, so as to help reduce the public health, environmental, and economic impacts of black carbon emissions from these sources by--

(i) identifying key regions for large-scale demonstration efforts, and key partners in each such region; and

(ii) developing for each such region a large-scale implementation strategy with a goal of collectively reaching 20,000,000 homes over 5 years with interventions that will--

(I) increase stove efficiency by over 50 percent (or such other goal as determined by the Administrator);

(II) reduce emissions of black carbon by over 60 percent (or such other goal as determined by the Administrator); and

(III) reduce the incidence of severe pneumonia in children under 5 years old by over 30 percent (or such other goal as determined by the Administrator);

(B) make technological improvements to diesel engines and provide greater access to fuels that emit less or no black carbon;

(D) reduce unnecessary fossil fuel burning that produces black carbon where feasible alternatives exist;

(E) reduce other sources of black carbon emissions; and

(F) improve capacity to achieve greater compliance with existing laws to address black carbon emissions.

(g) Authorization of Appropriations- There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act.

See also HR 1760 <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1760">Black Carbon Emissions Reduction Act of 2009

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19 April 2009 - 4:15pm

Mobile One Pot ICS

18 April 2009 - 2:22pm

Rocketstove.org is Online

18 April 2009 - 2:00pm

Scott

Dear friends,

www.rocketstove.org is finally online! And our friend John page from Aprovecho has agreed, at least in the short term, to be the new web administrator.

Our goal is to make this a practical site. For example the key content that I have right now is the Institutional Rocket stove design tool that will allow users to generate a custom set of institutional stove plans (brick and metal) just by inputting pot size and a few other key inputs .Ideally this would be the site that users would turn to for specific plans on how to construct rocket stoves , bread ovens, dryers kilns etc. If you have content that features step by step stove plans please register and then post them to the site. (note e: g it might take a day or 2 to approve your registration as I have to manually accept each registration ) . Registered users will eventually be able to produce their own home page if desired , or just add contact info. Foremost I would appreciate it if we could link your webpage to ours and vice versa.

The second goal of the site is to link people in the stove community by interest and region . For example someone could turn to the site and be linked to stove producers, purchasers and/or researchers in China, Guatemala, or Uganda. As the site grows into phase two we will add more functionality (ordering stoves online, visitors donating to specific projects, etc) but initially I would love to collect as many links and content as possible in the next few weeks for the launching of the site .

At present this is a volunteer effort , and John and I would appreciate any form of support (financial or otherwise) from the stove community to get this web page up and running. The webpage was only made public last week so we are still very much in our infancy so we appreciate your patience as we smooth out the wrinkles.

Also, Please feel free to forward this e-mail to anyone you think might be interested.

Peace

Peter Scott
Biomass Energy Consultant
cel (USA) : 541 232 7955
skype:rocketmanpeter
cel(Malawi): 265 856 9155
USA address
78590 Echo Hollow Lane
Cottage Grove,OR
97424
USA

Drawings

Plans

Rocket

Hybrid Rocket Stove

15 April 2009 - 8:08am

This Rocket Stove that is made from 4 cans and can be made by anyone with metal clippers. The efficiency of this stove surpasses any other rocket stove because it heats an unlimited supply of hot water at the same time that it cooks over the fire. Sound to good to be true? Check it out! Here is the link to the YouTube videos. May the world be blessed and thank God for this gift.

http://www.youtube.com/Littlechristgod

Rocket

Rocket Construction

Stick Wood

Singida Stoves

1 April 2009 - 9:38pm

Singida Stoves: Searchng for Advice on Concrete Stoves

1 April 2009 - 9:37pm

Heeboell

Singida Stoves: Searching for Advice on Concrete Stoves Klavs Heeboell, Danish Tanzanian Friendship Association (Dantan), Singida,Tanzania,March 28, 2009

Singida Stoves

At long last a short description with pictures of the kind of stoves on the agenda of Shina Group in corporation with a few members of the Danish Tanzanian Friendship Association (http://dantan.dk). I hope this will do for initial comments and ideas. The aim of the project is as in many developing countries to reduce the use of firewood and minimize smoke in the kitchen thereby improving the health of the cook and her children. We shall be most pleased to receive advice and ideas.

Klavs Heeboell

klavsheeboell@hotmail.com See letter attached with pictures and text.

Tanzania

Concrete

Improved Biomass Cooking Stoves

This site exists to help people develop better stoves for cooking with biomass fuels in developing regions.