[Stoves] COMPULSORY VIEWING!!! link from Re: The Aprovecho Newsletter - December 5th, 2014

[Joshua Guinto]

Thanks for sharing Dr. Paul. Congratulations to the Aprogvecho Team and all
the stovers who are persisting and persevering.

Jed

2014-12-07 9:55 GMT+08:00 Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu>:

>  Stovers,
>
> Absolutely interesting and important is the just-released 8-minute video
> from Aprovecho.   Especially the final 2 minutes (starts at 5:50) need to
> be seen by all serious stove developers.  There ....
>
> ...... ARC unveils five new super clean-burning cookstove prototypes that
> will be considered for mass production in 2015.
>
> Please watch on YouTube at:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e2_jSGIadk&feature=youtu.be
> <http://aprovecho.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6024c1562ffc2660833c676cf&id=52a7754d34&e=c1a3b0800a>
>
>
> This is the first time these stoves have been openly shown, even though
> showing only a few seconds each.   Of exceptional note is the natural draft
> TLUD-ND stove designed by Kirk Harris!!!
>
> One error (a very common misconception) is in the video at 6:46 concerning
> the Aprovecho "Top Loaded Forced Air stove", putting it into a category
> with forced air TLUD stoves, saying that the "TLUD-FA design [that] is used
> in the Philips, BP, and Biolite stoves."  These four stoves use the
> migratory pyrolytic front (MPF) of the TLUD technology only at the
> beginning of burning, and then the fire is in the bottom (bottom burning
> with additional fuel added on top, as in standard (not MPF) up-draft
> gasifiers) with forced primary air blowing onto the charcoal located there,
> creating forge temperatures that require special materials (ceramics, cast
> iron, special metals) to avoid fast damage to the fuel chamber.  We do not
> know yet what is inside the fuel chamber of the Aprovecho "Top Loaded
> Forced Air stove".   These are cost factors.
>
> This is all great progress!!!.   Congratulations Aprovecho!!!!
>
> We will want to be comparing the cost of manufacture (or the sales price)
> of all of these stoves.   And the announced field trials of these 5 stoves
> in 6 countries will be of great interest.
>
> The first 6 minutes shows the sophistication of mass production of SSM
> company in China.   In the world of cookstoves, this is big business.
>
> And  we will see these 5 stoves (among others) at the ETHOS meeting 23-25
> January 2015 in Seattle area.
>
> Enjoy!!
>
> Paul
>
> Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
> Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu
> Skype: paultlud      Phone: +1-309-452-7072
> Website:  www.drtlud.com
>
> On 12/5/2014 6:43 PM, Aprovecho Research Center wrote:
>
> Additionally, ARC unveils five new super clean-burning cookstove
> prototypes that will be considered for mass production in 2015.
>
> Please watch on YouTube at:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e2_jSGIadk&feature=youtu.be
> <http://aprovecho.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6024c1562ffc2660833c676cf&id=52a7754d34&e=c1a3b0800a>
>
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