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Post by Donkey on Mar 15, 2013 19:14:29 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2013 2:16:07 GMT -8
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Post by Donkey on Mar 16, 2013 11:08:12 GMT -8
When I first saw your post, my reaction was much the same.. Big love for a little stove. There are several ways that I've seen to make a sweet little highly effective but low tech cooker. Some are easier to make than others. Your stove there is pretty darn sweet, nice little one-piece. It has some clear advantages over the other, but to make it well should require a bit more skill..
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2013 5:48:34 GMT -8
but to make it well should require a bit more skill.. People need some instructions for both, likely more as one may expect. The story at rechoroket about the woman and her pigs makes it pretty clear. Virtually everybody from an industry nation has got a base training in identifying and solving simple problems. Virtually nobody of the poor people in third world countries has got trained in solving problems. The online manual relies on industrial waste, processed wood and several tools. The only tool needed for mine is a chopping knife (eg. bolo, machete ) to cut pieces from a trunk.
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Post by jacob on Jan 16, 2014 20:45:06 GMT -8
Yes. very cool for people with so little to be given such a simple means of improving their lives. I have a little fear that the mixture will be of varying quality and will crack and tumble in some cases spilling hot pots and coals in to their dwellings. even a 5 gallon metal bucket around the core left permanently would address this because there would be lots of room for error, even if the core cracked severely, no catastophe would happen. Sad that people in these situations don't even have the means of having a metal bucket, when such a thing is nuisance trash in the western world.
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Post by 2tranceform on Jan 17, 2014 7:09:12 GMT -8
Thanks for sharing Donkey. I have a cast iron wok that would be perfect for that stove.
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Post by oboblomov on Jan 17, 2014 10:00:08 GMT -8
I just bounced into this and love it. ... I too thank you, donkey, for this post. And karl, for yours. Both are very fine examples of the use of simple, available materials to make cooking stoves that can appreciably improve the quality of life of the intended target population. That everyone doesn't "get it" right off is to be expected, and is by no means a problem exclusively encountered in the "third world." Otherwise, wouldn't everyone be heating their homes with RMHs? (And solar??) I found the degree of attention given in the Rechorocket example, to communicating necessary information, exceptional, and learned a few tricks myself that I'd not thought of before . I hope they stick. obob
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Post by Lance on Jan 31, 2014 23:01:10 GMT -8
I am new to the rocket generation, got the online rocket III read it, the creative juices are flowing, great stuff in these posts. Learning lots, and thanks Lance
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