[Stoves] Story about a successful TLUD in Indonesia

[Ronal W. Larson]

List:  cc Prof. Nurhuda and Camilla Fulland

	1.  This is to encourage all stovers to read the nice story about the Indonesian firm “Kopernik”, with much about Prof. Nurhuda and his TLUD stove, and the firm “Prime Stoves”.   I get the (free) print copy of “Boiling Point” (BP), but think you can get there through:
	http://www.hedon.info/BP:Latest%20Issue
Then you have to download - but maybe first sign up.

	2.  One quote (emphasis added about being the most popular stove - the first time I have seen this for a TLUD):
	"In their search for an appropriate cookstove, Wojkowska and Nakamura were introduced to Professor Muhammad Nurhuda, a lecturer in theoretical physics at Brawijaya University in Malang, East Java. Professor Nurhuda had been working on the development of a top-lit uplift gasifier stove, named the UB.03-01 stove. This stove used up to 80% less wood than a three-stone cookfire and produced no smoke when burning dry fuel. Made from sheet metal, the stove was lightweight and easy to transport - a valuable feature in order to expand distribution to remote islands. The factory price of the stove, less than US$ 13, was far lower than imported cookstoves (in the range of US$ 30-50) and there was no risk of shipments being delayed in customs. This confluence of innovative design, fuel-efficiency, portability and affordability made the stove extremely attractive from a technical and economical viewpoint.

The UB.03-1 stove was regularly selected as the most popular clean cookstove at these events. In Bojonegoro, East Java, it was voted the most popular product of all technologies including solar lights, water filters and agricultural technologies. 

A further key supply chain development came in late 2013 when Norwegian investment group Differ became the majority investor and distributor of Professor Nurhuda’s UB.03-1 cookstove.”

	3.  Most of the story was about the distribution system set up by Kopernik, which company can be found at:   http://www.kopernik.ngo/

	4.  There is a good  bit about a firm called Prime stoves  (http://www.primestoves.com/team/), headed by Ms Fulland

	5.   Dr.  Nurhuda and Ms. Fulland:  
	Can you add anything on why the stove purchasers liked your TLUD stove better than others?  (time saving?  using the char?, smoke reduction?,  able to use small branches?, making money?, saving money?, etc?

	I would have liked to included an address for the founders of Kopernik (Wojkowska and Nakamura) , so hope you will see if they also wish to comment.

	Congratulations to all involved,  especially the Hedon publishers of BP, who I presume read this list some.

Ron
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