[Stoves] Rice Hull Cooking Stove

[AJH]

On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:44:10 -0500, walter robb wrote:

>Good Afternoon:
>
>     My name is Walter J. Robb from Ohio, USA and I am down here in Peru, SA
>just a little South of Ecuador.  Stuck here waiting on my government to
>issue my new Peruvial wife an exit visa, long story.  In any event, I have
>been here a year now, am a farmer at heart, and I want to know about your
>rice hull burning stove.

Hi Walter, you should wander over to
http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_listserv.repp.org and
subscribe to the list, then you can post messages directly. 

The [stoves] list does not have any stoves as such, I think the stove
you are referring to is one developed by REAP.
>
>     Here, the rural people cook with firewood, charcoal and if they can
>afford it, propane.  Obviously, there are mountains of rice hulls here that
>are not used.  I found your site with Google and would like to know how to
>build these stoves here and also how to make the rice hull brickettes I have
>read about.  I can not afford your package, but maybe you can direct me.
>There seems to me to be an opportunity here in the stove manufacturing and
>also brickette production.
>
>    Please give me your thoughts on how we might work together to the
>benefit of sustainable Ag. down here plus make some money.

Seems to me you are asking too much of the developers of the stove,
they offer a design package which you are unable to afford yet you
want to make use of a design to earn some money.....

There is a nascent project to put stoves designs on the bioenergylists
site under a GNU licence but I'm not sure what the terms will be for
commercial manufacture. So far I think only Crispin has contributed a
design.
>
>    Thanks for your time.
>
>Walter J. Robb    Las Lomas, Piura, Peru, SA

Hope that helps

Andrew Heggie