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This family-sized cooker can cook meals for 4-5 people. A larger version of the family size box-type cooker was also developed and used for canteen application. The canteen size solar cookers are just larger in size and can cook for 10- 15 persons. A large Community Solar Cooker has been developed with Solar Concentrator technology...

The Global Sun Over meets 70% of the needs of a family of 6 to 8 people using entirely solar generated energy. Food can be boiled, steamed, roasted or baked at cooking temperatures of 360° F / 182 ° C, suitable for cooking the majority of foods in the developing world. The Appliance weighs only 21 pounds / 9.5 kg and has a life span...

The Belonio rice husk cooking stove emits a bluish flame and does not leave soot on the casserole. It can boil about 1 .5 liters of water in less than eight minutes. It is like cooking on a stove powered by liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), except that the fuel comes free: It uses rice husks, a farm waste common in agricultural countries...

Features Reduces smoke and harmful gasses by up to 80 Reduces biomass fuel use by up to 60 Reduces cooking time by up to 50 EnviroFlame Combustion System Working with Oakridge National Research Laboratory to optimize a patent pending combustion chamber alloy that prevents deterioration of the chamber and gives it an exceptionally long life...

Grameen Shakti, a non-profit founded by the Grameen Bank, is developing cooking alternatives that will improve indoor air conditions. The main components of the stove are built on site by trained technicians. Locally available products such as mud, husks, and animal dung are used to construct the main chamber of the stove. The most...

Biomass is a primary fuel source in India. Most commonly , wood is collected from forests and burned in stoves for cooking and other processes. TIDE aims to improve the efficiency of cooking stoves, and reduce the need for biomass fuel, and its resultant emissions TIDE designs improved stoves tailored to the needs of different consumers...

Sampada is a natural draft gasifier which produces charcoal as a bye product. For every kg of wood burned, it is possible to get cooking energy for about 30 min with about 200 gm of charcoal left behind. The charcoal can be used as fuel in a charcoal burning stove or can also be used as biochar for addition to the soil for carbon...

The stove consists of 8 specially sized AAC cement blocks, a cast iron fire grate , and a mild steel pot holder . The blocks are tied together with pieces of wire. Bricks are arranged on the ground in the shape of a U. The AAC cement inset is placed on top of the arrangements, such that the firebox opening is at right angles with the...

Estufa Finca is a biochar producing cookstove originally designed for coffee growers in Costa Rica. The stoves are designed to reduce the amount of smoke inhaled by the user and to reduce overall carbon emissions SeaChar's Estufa Finca cook- stove reinvents fire. It can use a wide range of dry, waste organic materials to produce clean...

The Kyoto Box is a collapsible solar oven. It won the Financial Times Climate Change Challenge in 2009 The Kyoto Box provides a cooking option that elminates many of the adverse effects of burning firewood. The product itself is in fact a box, that attracts and traps sunlight to heat food, sterilize water , and much more. Food or water...

The SolSource is a lightweight solar energy device that provides users with a low-cost and portable means of cooking , heating and electricity generation Co-designed with rural Himalayan communities, the SolSource eliminates many of the complications associated with burning solid fuels, including harmful indoor air pollution, gender...

The Prakti Leo Wood Stoves are portable, efficient cookstoves designed to be compatible with common rural cooking habits across the world. The stoves come in three models: single burner, double burner, and a double burner with chimney extension . The rocket stove design reduces fuel wood consumption by 40-50%, emissions...

The Envirofit B-1200 cookstove is made of a ceramic chamber that has been developed to vastly reduce fuel consumption , emissions and cooking time . Envirofit report that the cookstove significantly reduces toxic emissions by up to 80%, uses 50% less fuel than traditional open fire cooking, and reduces cooking time by nearly 60%. The...

Sunfire is a solar based cooking solution

MAGH 3G" is the most adoptable stove, for anyone and anywhere. All types of biomass (sticks / chips of wood / wood shavings / leaves, etc), pellets, briquettes, cow dung cakes and charcoal can be used for cooking. This is an all in one stove. It was found that many families have at least two or three types of stoves in rural areas for...

The portable Volcano Stove collapses down to 5" and makes use of passive ventilation for highly efficient cooking. Although too heavy for backpacking, it is highly portable for car camping or travel. It can be powered by three different cooking fuels --propane, charcoal, and wood , performing efficiently in all three catagories. Available...

Kyoto Turbo is a smokeless biomass cooker. It complements the Kyoto Box in providing modern household energy, as it can also be used in the dark , and for frying foods. Kyoto Turbo uses biomass residues such as twigs, straw, coconut husks and maizecobs Kyoto Turbo increases the combustion efficiency by 300% compared to charcoal stoves How...

Since 2003, conflict in Darfur has killed at least 300,000 people, forced more than two million people from their homes, and destroyed traditional livelihoods. Many now reside in large displacement camps where they receive food aid but still must gather firewood to cook their meals. In response, women must either walk up to seven hours...

The Wonderbag is a heat- retention cooking bag A Wonderbag is an insulated bag in which people can cook anything from meaty stews and vegetable curries to simple rice and soups. You kick-start the cooking process by heating your pot of food on the stove, then place it in the Wonderbag Wonderbag's insulating properties allow food that has...