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Charcoal is delivered all over Uganda in bags like this. They cost about 12,000 shillings each (About $6.50). Pictured are our three original stove promoters, Francis, JK, and Mary.

The Sprocket Rocket (pdf) (Uganda)
Ken Goyer June 4, 2006

Ken Goyer describes the "sprocket rocket" charcoal stove and its use in Uganda.

This is a bicycle sprocket. I was visiting a camp near Lira and this woman came along holding this sprocket. She said that she was planning to make a Sprocket Rocket and that she had paid 1000 shillings (about 54 cents) for it.

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Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, June 3, 2006

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, Swaziland June 3, 2006

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Manual clay ring forming machine for making the combustion chamber of a small single-pot Rocket Stove.
New Dawn Engineering
Crispin Pemberton-Pigott June 2 2006

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