[Stoves] Cooking With Corn Cobs in Saipina, Bolivia

[Tom Miles]

David,

It looks like you have accomplished a lot in a relative short period of time, considering what you were doing about a year ago. I think the balance between stove efficiency and customer acceptance will be ongoing. 

Draft can be measured fairly simply using a homemade or purchased draft gauge. Folks on the list will have suggestions for both. 

I usually take extra gauges with me when I travel because I always wind up leaving them. If you have any volunteers coming down you can send them a wish list. 

Tom  


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> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 4:41 PM
> To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
> Subject: Re: [Stoves] Cooking With Corn Cobs in Saipina, Bolivia
> 
> Hi Tom,
> We are slowly getting some numbers and feed back.  The program
> officially
> kicked of April 24 th althought they had one of our stoves since Dec.
> 
> We have changed our combustion chamber a bit since the PCI video and
> will
> send on pics soon.  I have a trip tomorrow again into the countryside.
> 
> The chimney is 6 inches in diameter.  We are now using a rectangular
> tube as
> a type of elbo.  The round elbo maker saw we needed a lot and tried to
> double his price.
> 
> How can I measure draft?
> 
> thanks
> David