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  • The Sprocket Rocket

    The Sprocket Rocket
    By Ken Goyer
    June 2006

    While I have adopted the position that people should not make charcoal burning stoves because they are inherently wasteful, and dangerous, I have been overruled by popular opinion in the Uganda Refugee camps. Burning charcoal is customary and is sometimes necessary when there is no other fuel available. While rural people are accustomed to and prefer to burn fuel wood, city dwellers rely extensively on charcoal. But when fuel wood is not available to gather, people are forced to buy charcoal, sometimes by trading some of their precious food in order to cook the remainder. For a long time, people have made stoves using a bicycle sprocket for a grate. But the introduction of the insulated brick has made possible the construction of what is now called the ???Sprocket Rocket???. It differs mainly in that combustion takes place in insulated surroundings.

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    Ken Goyer
    Aprovecho Research Center
    AidAfrica
    285 Maple Street
    Eugene, Oregon, 97402
    Telephone 541-689-7170
    Email kgoyer@comcast.net
    Email aiduganda@comcast.net

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    Uganda: Five Stove Projects

    2004 by Ken Goyer

    There are 15 images in this gallery

    Last updated: November 1, 2008 - 07:48

  • Darfur Sixbricks 1

    Ken Goyer, Making SixBricks Rocket in Darfur

    There are 25 images in this gallery

    Last updated: October 18, 2008 - 21:53