[Stoves] camp 2006

[Tom Miles]

All,

A report about CEDESOL activities titled "Lasting Impacts of a Solar Cooker
Project in Bolivia" by
Melanie Szulczewski, Ph. D., Solar Household Energy, Inc. (April 2006) is on
the www.bioenergylists.org site. 

Thanks and congratulations to the Whitfields for their accomplishments in
promoting solar, retained heat, biomass and integrated cooking.

Tom
 

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[mailto:stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Fundacion CEDESOL
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:53 PM
To: Paul S. Anderson; Dean Still; ethos at vrac.iastate.edu
Cc: 'STOVES'
Subject: Re: [Stoves] camp 2006

Hi Paul Anderson,
Glad to see you are up and about! How did it all go?

Stovers!
2 of our ETHOS team members arrived yesterday and today they started working
in the Sobre la Roca shop facilities, getting a taste for food cookers in
Ecological integrated cooking systems!

Before we even had housing arrangements finished they were eager to jump
into the action and have already begun building solar cookers with the SLR
crew.  Clayton and Zach also got to taste chicken roasted in a solar cooker
rice cooked on the 2 burner rocket and then in a RT cooker as well as baked
potatoes and banana bread while we did a demo for 8 members of an
international NGO.  A good time was had by all, and we are so pleased with
these young Americans.

CEDESOL's team along with SLR's will be very busy these days.  One
technician just returned from delivering 2 100 liter pot institutional
stoves several hundred kilometers towards the central highlands of Bolivia.

With ETHO's help soon we will have pictures and activities posted through
Tom.

Abrazos
David
On 24/5/06 11:17, "Paul S. Anderson" <psanders at ilstu.edu> wrote:

> Stovers,
> 
> Quoting Dean Still <dstill at epud.net>:
> 
>> Dear STOVES,
>    (much snipped)
>> By the way Stove Camp is August 18-22 here in Oregon. Hope that you 
>> can come!
>> 
>> Shall we concentrate on $5 fan stoves?
>> 
> _________
> Stove camp is a GREAT event and I hope many can attend.
> 
> Note that this year it centers on a weekend.  Friday 18 August through 
> Tuesday
> 22 August 2006.  Some participants [with university commitments?] 
> might leave early, but everyone has a great experience even if only 
> there for a day or two because it is such a concentrated, focused, 100%
stoves practical event.
> 
> I like the idea of concentrating on fan ["forced air"] stoves!!!!!!!
> Let's NOT
> limit it to $5 maximum costs, but have adequate emphasis on keeping 
> the costs low.  AND keep in mind Tom Reed's comment that urban 
> dwellers (with modest cash flows and access to electricity) also need 
> to be served.
> 
> I hope we collectively can gather some price, supply, power, etc info 
> about approprate forced air devices and methods:  electric vs. manual, 
> and fans and blowers and pressured air for entrainment (creating 
> negative pressure instead of positive pressure.)
> 
> Dean, please confirm that PRE-stove camp access to the Aprovecho 
> facilities are a possibility for those who make arrangements.  For 
> example, Dale Andreatta will be in the area during 14 to 17 August and 
> I would like a place to meet with him about stoves, and I am 
> considering coming early to prepare some materials that are too heavy 
> for the airplane and need more time to prepare and perhaps get some 
> measurements made on the stove testing equipment IF that can be 
> accommodated by Aprovecho staff.
> 
> Info:  Stove camp has both freedom to do you own thing and also 
> organizational structure with voluntary presentations about excellent 
> stove topics, depending on who is present and willing.
> 
> REQUEST:  It is both interesting and helpful to have some idea 
> beforehand about who will be (or probably will be) present at Stove 
> Camp.  For example, Paul van der Sluis and his Philips unit would be a 
> "big-name attraction" that could influence others to make the trip, if 
> he is able to come and we know about that ahead of time.
> 
> Dean, any additional information would be appreciated, including 
> repeating the basics about costs, sponsorship by Shell and ETHOS and 
> others, accommodation options, the new Aprovecho facilities (with
photos??), etc.
> 
> Stove Camp is a HIGHLIGHT event on the Stoves calendar!
> 
> (P.S.    Any info about the possible ETHOS/Stoves meeting in Central
> America? Send it as a separate message with new Subject line, please.)
> 
> Paul

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