[Stoves] E: AIDG Rocket in a Box

[David Whitfield]

Hi Tom,

Crispin sure has a good eye for details!  What blows me away is how  
he has time for so much!

I took a look at the pictures too and seems they have combined the  
Onil stove with the Proleña model.  The plancha top, fabricated with  
different rings like Help's looks to be much wider.  There didn't  
seem to be any diverters or baffles to help heat the whole plancha.   
also I noticed a lot of soot on the back ring.  All the stoves seem  
to built outside?

Their fuel shelf looks like thick rebar.

One pict showed what looked to me like baldosa type brick liner all  
around the inside between the insulation material and the outside  
metal.  If that is so, I don't see how the stove is not heavy.  Ours,  
using ashes for insulation and having 2 combustion chambers weights  
about 67 kilos and that is heavy when you are carrying it around to  
demos.

Glad to see innovations.

By the way, we are working with a financial institution that is  
making small loans to people to buy a solar or rocket stove.  Their  
monthly payments are close to $5.00 and when they finish they have a  
savings account along with their credit history.

warm regards

David


On Apr 2, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Tom Miles wrote:

> Crispin,
>
> It looks like they've taken the combustor, baldosa tiles and all,  
> from the
> HELPS stove and put it in a box.
>
> See http://www.bioenergylists.org/stovesdoc/Oneil/Baldosas.html
>
> I found the AIDG site by searching for "microfinance stove" I was  
> curious to
> know how many sites offered small loans to stoves projects. For  
> example, I
> only found one energy related loan (for charcoal making) on  
> www.kiva.org
>
> What organizations provide loans for starting medium sized businesses
> manufacturing stoves? GTZ, Shell, others? That sized business would  
> employ
> people and generate more benefits to a community than a microcredit  
> loan.
>
> Tom
>
>> Do you know if those are Baldosa Tiles?  I recall seeing something  
>> like
>> that
>> where the tiles were cut from standard Baldosa tiles and I just  
>> want to
>> make
>> sure of what I am seeing.
>> Crispin
>
>
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