Biomass Cookstoves Weblog
This is a log of changes to the Stoves list website.


Sunday, November 13, 2005  

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott (New Dawn Engineering) and Peter Scott (Aprovecho) have been busy with new developments on large institutional stoves.

Ken Goyer gives us a great photo tour of burning manure and plastic in Armenia.

posted by Thomas | 6:04 PM


Sunday, October 30, 2005  

Look for new formatting and publicaitons as we change the look of the Biomass Cooking Stoves site.

posted by Thomas | 8:04 PM


Saturday, October 30, 2004  

REPP has a new data line to the server so the web pages should be faster.

Find great reports on stoves dessimination in the archives

News from list participants include:
Free State Paraffin (FSP) Stove, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, October 2004
Chimney Draft Calculator and Stove Modelling Spreadsheet, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, October 2004
Rocket Stoves in Sub-Saharan Africa, Peter Scott and Jayme Vineyard, Aprovecho, October 2004 (9 reports)
Five Stove Projects 2004, Ken Goyer, Aprovecho, October 2004
Teosinte, El Salvador Vol 1
Salina Cruz, Mexico Vol 2
Torreon, Mexico Vol 3
Ghana Vol 4
Uganda Vol 5

Tami Bond reminds us to travel Carbon Neutral







posted by Thomas | 3:29 PM


Monday, May 31, 2004  

May 31, 2004. It's been a busy year and a very productive May. Lot's of
travel, interaction and new ideas. Look at the Stoves website for recent
contributions from Mike Hatfield, Dean Still, Ken Goyer, Sjoerd Nienhuys,
Lanny Henson and Crispin Pemberton-Pigott.

http://www.repp.org/discussiongroups/resources/stoves

Renewable Energy Curriculum Design for Schools Potato Cooking as Science Education For Primary and Secondary Schools, Sjoerd Nienhuys Senior Renewable Energy Advisor, SNV-Nepal May 2004, Kathmandu
Join the Partnership for Clean Air: http://www.pciaonline.org/
Stove Powered Lighting, Ken Goyer May 2004
The Grok Cook Top, Lanny Henson (May 2004) and the Vesto 3 Version, Crispin Pemberton-Piggot (May 2004)

posted by Thomas | 2:50 PM


Sunday, January 25, 2004  

Todd W. White of Sapulpa, Oklahoma has created a new site for lovers of Chambers stoves.

posted by Thomas | 7:01 PM


Saturday, January 03, 2004  

Lanny Henson shows us his Two Pot Bain Marie with Oven and Heart Burner, Biomass Cook Stove and has some good suggestions for Krishna Kumar.

posted by Thomas | 3:59 PM


Friday, December 26, 2003  

Krishna Kumar asks whether a Natural Draft Gasifier Stove can be used in the Tamil Nadu region of India for heating dyes and cooking. He would like to use the wood from the prosopis juliflora (mesquite) that grows there.

posted by Thomas | 6:30 PM


Saturday, November 29, 2003  

Richard Boyt posts a paper on Wood Pyrolysis showing three of more than 20 designs he explored in the 1970s.

Dean Still announces two upcoming conferences: ETHOS 2004 Jan 31-Feb 1 and Design Performance Guidelines Workshop Feb 2-3, 2004 in Seattle, Washington. The latter is in cooperation with the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air.

Dean also reports on the ETHOS Fall Research Seminar held Nov 10-14, 2003

posted by Thomas | 12:14 PM


Thursday, November 06, 2003  

Peter Scott shows us a household stove and a bread oven that he's been working on in Lesotho with GTZ.

Rogerio Miranda has provided some new links for the Cocinas y Estufas pages.

posted by Thomas | 9:50 PM


Sunday, November 02, 2003  

David Whitfield, CEDESOL, La Paz, provides us with the presentation on Ecological Stoves that he made to the Global Village Energy Partnership in Latin America meeting July 2003 in Bolivia. David has assembled a great compendium of current work on stoves, including CEDESOL's experience with retained heat or fireless cookers and solar cookers.

Christa Roth shows us how a food warmer or fireless cooker is made in Malawi from an old basket and banana leaves.

Paul Anderson and his student Brandy Wilken have compiled a Bibliography on Hayboxes and fireless cookers that we have compiled into a Haybox, Haybag, retained heat cooker page and pdf document.



posted by Thomas | 9:29 PM


Saturday, October 18, 2003  

The Country listing of stoves has been updated to include the events listed on the main stoves page.

Stuart Conway's photo from the Trees Water and People Booth at the Sustainable Resources 2003 Conference in Boulder Colorado (Sept 29-Oct 6) illustrates Dean Still's report of the event.

Lisa Buttner's report from the June Seminar on Bioenergy and Rural Sustainable Development Small Scale Applications Working Group Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico has been posted along with some TWP photos of traditional and improved stoves in Mexico and Nicaragua.

Lisa's report from the ESMAP/GENES Mesoamerican Network on Gender in Sustainable Energy April - July 2002 has been converted to html. The html version still needs cleaning but if you want the full report you can download the pdf version at 5.4 MB.

Stovers who would like to write or compile review articles with photos and links on specific topics such as ceramics, gasifier stoves, fuels, charcoal, health, etc. please send them to me (tmiles@trmiles.com) and I will post them.


posted by Thomas | 5:06 PM
 

Stovers have been active this Fall. Among the many new images I've added the following to the stoves pages:

Peter Scott shows us his Nkokonono Stove developed with GTZ/Probec in Lesotho


Ramesh K Nibhoria, Nishant Energy, Chandigarh, shows us his Community Briquette Stove, October 2003

John Davies has some new modifications to his Coal Gasifier Stove, October 2003

Richard Stanley shows us his TMC-1 Thresher Masher Crusher used to prepare fuels for conversion to holey briquettes at the micro level. October 2003

Links are up for Lanny Henson's Two Pot Stove with Oven, October 2003

As usual at:
http://www.repp.org/discussiongroups/resources

Tom

posted by Thomas | 12:21 AM


Saturday, October 11, 2003  

Kobus Venter and Richard Stanley have improved their prototype Briquette gasifiying stove.

Peter Scott, Aprovecho, shares his report on the GTZ Energy Advisory Project: Introduction of Rocket Stove Cooking Devices in Uganda August 12-September 12, 2003. Peter's report is also available in pdf format (1.4 MB)

posted by Thomas | 4:43 PM


Tuesday, September 09, 2003  

Fernando Martirena shows us his Ecosur Holey Sawdust Briquettes and new briquette press.

Richard Stanley shows us the Burning Behavior of Holey Briquettes from Kamapal, Uganda.

Richard Boyt continues to give us good advice on Ceramics for Cookstoves with Part 5: Making Samples for Testing and comments on Practical Tips for Potters Making Improved Stoves (1-4).

posted by Thomas | 6:17 PM


Monday, September 01, 2003  

There has been lots of activity this summer.

Don O'Neal shows us his new HELPS International stove factory in Rio Bravo, Nicaragua.

posted by Thomas | 6:43 PM


Saturday, August 30, 2003  

Demetrio Roja, Richard Stanley and Ron Larson show us the use of organic briquettes in improved cookstoves in Peru in a presentation of Fogones mejorados y Briquetas Orgánicas. ADRA is looking for contributions to continue their work in Peruvian villages.

posted by Thomas | 8:42 PM


Wednesday, August 20, 2003  

Rob Bailis shares his photos from a visit to Richard Njagu in Kenya and comments on Richard's New Henya Stove design.

posted by Thomas | 10:10 PM
 

Kobus Venter and Richard Stanley describe their new Holey Briquette Gassifier stove tests, designed for the briquette technology promoted by the Legacy Foundation.

posted by Thomas | 9:24 PM


Tuesday, July 08, 2003  

Martin Melendez describes the Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln being tested by Grupo Sofonias in Nicaragua.

posted by Thomas | 9:17 PM


Sunday, July 06, 2003  

As part of his series on Ceramics for Cookstoves Richard Boyt commments on Practical Tips for Potters Making Improved Cooking Stoves.

Comments on Dick's series can be seen on the Biomass Cooking Stoves Archives starting June 2003, week 4

Thanks to Richard Boyt and Auke Koopmans for this series.

posted by Thomas | 7:44 PM


Saturday, July 05, 2003  

Dean Still shows us pictures of his Rocket Lantern.

Ramesh K Nibhoria, Chandigarh, India, shows producers and uses of biomass briquettes in India on the NISHANT BIOENERGY CONSULTANCY website.

posted by Thomas | 5:49 PM


Wednesday, June 18, 2003  

The ETHOS June 2003 Stove Testing & Design Seminar Summary by Dean Still been posted on the Stoves pages in both pdf and html format.

posted by Thomas | 6:11 PM


Monday, June 16, 2003  

Rob Bailis has provided a very good CO Fact Sheet based on CO testing that has been done by Majid Ezzati et. al in Kenya. This is a must read. Thanks Rob and congratulations on your team's useful work. We need more in-situ health studies on the use of traditional and improved cookstoves.

posted by Thomas | 11:40 PM


Saturday, June 14, 2003  

Reports, comments and pictures from the ETHOS Stove Design and Testing Seminar held June 2-6, 2003 are available.

Information has also been posted on Lo Trau rice hull stoves in the Phillippines from REAP and IRRI.

posted by Thomas | 12:33 PM


Sunday, June 08, 2003  

Ceramic stoves, insulation, charcoal and gasification are all reflected in new additions. Richard Boyt continues his advice on ceramics for stoves with Testing firing clays in parts 3A - Primitive Kilns and 3B Rediscovery of a Natural Kiln See also How to Construct a Kiln for Clay Stove Firing by Christa Roth (ISFP Malawi)

Richard Boyt and Ron Larson are discussing construction of a ceramic charcoal making stove.

Richard Njagu (Kenya) shows pictures of his new Henya Stove and the local clays he uses.

posted by Thomas | 1:12 PM
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