[Stoves] Cooking With Corn Cobs in Saipina, Bolivia

[Robert Taylor]

Watching those videos, some minor points occurred to me:

1. PCI traning video: When assembling the stove, as far as I could see there 
did not seem to be any adequate measures taken to prevent the back of the 
combustion chamber being pushed out of position when loading fuel into the 
chamber. Also the sides and top seemed to be secured only with a ring of 
wire with the ends twisted together, which I fear would tend to work loose. 
Would it be a good idea to pack the space around the combustion chamber with 
brick, tile, sand, adobe, or mortar? One would have to take care not to 
create concentrated pressure points that would crack the combustion chamber 
panels during thermal cycling.

2. WBT video: Is it safe to have the gas canister between the two stoves 
like that? Here in Taiwan, where many people cook with LPG, the gas bottle 
is usually placed outside (on a balcony, if on an upper floor), with the 
pipe running through the wall into the kitchen. If theft is a concern, it 
might at least be somewhat safer to move the gas bottle to the other side of 
the gas stove.

3. Cooking with cobs video: Here in Taiwan that chimney, only tied to the 
house with two loops of wire, would not survive the first typhoon. Would it 
be a good idea to run out some guy wires from near the top of the chimney?

Robert Taylor


> See David Whitfield's (CEDESOL) story on cooking with corn cobs in 
> Saipina,
> Bolivia.
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> http://www.bioenergylists.org/en/cedesolsaipina07
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> David made videos on the cooking, water boiling tests and volunteer
> training.