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Coming of the Corporate Biomass Stove - Mass Manufacturing to Save the Day?
Charlie Sellers, November 23, 2008

For the last several years there has been a huge amount of activity in what we might call "corporate stoving" - it is not as if corporations of one kind or another have not always had cooking wares for sale (certainly in the developed world!), but they have not always been this active in developing countries - the market certainly is huge, but the margins are uncertain and the customers non-traditional. These welcome players include British Petroleum, Bosch Siemens, Philips Electronics, and the Shell Foundation and their more technology rich mass manufacturable stoves have the potential to reduce fuel consumption by 50% and drop emissions significantly, and result in deployments of tens of millions of units each. This short article is a collection of photos and links about some of the most recent stoves which might be deployed in larger numbers.

See: http://improvedstoves.blogspot.com/2008/08/coming-of-corporate-biomass-s...

Urban Justa Stove Building Workshop in San Francisco
Charlie Sellers, July 29, 2008

Sebastian Africano was just through the SF Bay area, building stoves on his way to Stove Camp, and I added this post on his workshop to my evolving IAP site:

http://iapstoves.blogspot.com/2008/07/justa-building-workshop-in-san.html

Manually-operated biomass pelletizer - clay as a binder?
Charlie Sellers, May 10, 2008
Honeycomb Coal

ETHOS 2008 Conference
Charlie Sellers, Improved Biomass Stoves, February 3, 2008

See Charlie Seller's report on ETHOS 2008
http://improvedstoves.blogspot.com/2008/02/ethos-2008-conference.html

Experiences Using a Hand Crank Generator for Fan Stoves
Charlie Sellers and Brad Ballard, January 2008
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For about four months I have had a hand crank powered LED flashlight that I have been very impressed with (http://www.freeplayenergy.com/products/illumination/jonta, and other retailers such as REI sell it for less - ~$50) – it can either be charged by its AC adapter or by turning a hand crank, the high performance LED is extremely bright, the flashlight has several intensity settings, it lasts longer on a full charge than I can easily measure, and my model is heavily rubberized for ruggedness and waterproof characteristics. It is by far the best of the many LED flashlights that I have tried, including both moving magnet and straight battery powered ones – this one seems very bombproof and efficient; several of us have been very pleased with it.

Making Charcoal for Biochar at Home
Charlie Sellers, November 18, 2007

Aprovecho Biomass Stove Camp 2006
Charlie Sellers, EWB-SFP Appropriate Technology Design Team, August 27, 2006

See Charlie's blog on the ETHOS/Aprovecho Stove Camp