[Stoves] cheap = ugly ?

[Marc-Antoine Pare]

Yeah, I've always thought this was an interesting conversation.

One anecdote:
In designing gasifiers for rural brick-makers, I found that "ugly" in 
the sense of "looks industrial" was not necessarily a bad thing: the 
operators and mechanics were happy to see that the device /looked like 
something they were familiar with/. Hence, they could maintain it, 
modify it, etc.

Of course, this was a product for small industry, not for consumers. The 
same reasoning may not hold for a household customer.

-marc

On 3/22/13 12:22 PM, Josh Kearns wrote:
> Thought stovers would like to know of a parallel conversation going on 
> in the WASH sector....
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