El Salvador

Testing Results of the Ecocina Cooking Stove from El Salvador
Nordica MacCarty, Aprovecho Research Center, March 5, 2008
Nancy Hughes, Stove Team International, April 5, 2008
La Disminuicion de las Emanaciones de Humo

The New Ecocina Stove Design
Stove Team International, ETHOS 2008, January 27, 2008
New Ecocina Stove
Ecocina with old stove in background

- Made from sheet metal or ferro-cement, insulated and cool to the touch
- Efficient combustion creates little smoke and requires no chimney
- Portable
- Inexpensive to make
- Based on the time-tested “rocket elbow” design
- Reduced deforestation and CO2 emission using less fuel wood

See ETHOS presentation attached

Ecocina Stove in Guayabo, San Lorenzo, Honduras
Larry Winiarski, Gustavo Pena, Ken Goyer, Don Steely, Stove Team International, December 23, 2007

Ecocina Stove, Honduras

Using Pumice to Make Lightweight Ceramics in El Salvador
Damon Ogle, Aprovecho Research Center, March 31, 2003

Thinking About Wood
By Ken Goyer March, 2003

If you live in a place where wood is your main form of energy you think a lot about wood. Much of your time is spent gathering, handling, and using wood, or money is spent to buy it.

Five Stove Projects 2004, Ken Goyer, Aprovecho, October 2004

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