[Stoves] The first Sixbricks Rocket Stove in Darfur

[ken goyer]

See images at: http://bioenergylists.org/en/darfur6b 

 

     Yesterday we had our first demonstration of the SixBricks Rocket stove
in North Darfur. We had successfully  fired about 1,000 of our special
lightweight bricks using a local brickmaker, and now we have now started to
show off the stove. Our first demonstration was a huge success. While the
demonstration was intended to show the stove to a few nonprofit
organizations, about 100 women came and took over the cooking action.The
local staple food, aceda, was made in the largest round bottomed pot and
then meat and sauces were cooked in other pots. The surprise was that after
cooking this large and rather complicated meal, two thirds of it was handed
over the fence and spirited away into a hut where some men were gathered. So
the women were left with very little to taste. None the less they were very
happy with the performance of the stove.

     The political situation here remains touchy and for various reasons we
will not travel to Kebkabia. Instead, we will stay here and work in El
Fasher for now. Next, we hope to start a demonstration stove project in a
camp which is actually a part of El Fasher. This way, access is easier, and
it is safer, and still there are 32,000 people there, desperate for fuel
with no trees in sight. Traveling even to the closest outside camp requires
permits and permission and some worry about personal security or at least
the theft of your vehicle by various rebel groups.

I have attached two photos to this email. The first one is of the stove and
the second one is looking the other way at the crowd. Dan Wolf, founder and
director of the International Lifeline Fund, and the benefactor of this
project, has decided to rename the stove the "Miracle" Stove. I told him
that it should be called the "Science" Stove, but that name just doesn't
have quite the same ring.

     Thanks to everybody who has made the invention and development and
dissemination of this stove possible. The fruits of our labor are about to
ripen.

 

Best regards, Ken Goyer