[Stoves] Energy poverty and shack fires

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott crispinpigott at outlook.com
Thu May 11 17:34:18 CDT 2017


Dear Nikhil

>Of course, it struck me that LPG - despite whatever casualties - marketed better all around than dung stoves.

OK, that is reasonable, but whoever tried to make a much improved dung burning stove? Prakti did, and the KG2.5 is a dung burner with far better performance than the traditional stove.

To put a number to that claim, the efficiency of the KG30 is about 2.5 times higher than the traditional one it replaces. I visited a lady outside Osh City who said she has to feed the dung burning stove every 15 minutes. The KG 2.5 can burn for 4 hours at least without being touched. Some say 5 hours.

As nothing (as far as we know) is making it into Afghanistan from southern Tajikistan, we are discussing how to enter the Afghan market. There are organisations with pan-border activities and we plan to use them as knowledge channels to share these simple stove designs.

So, I expect that better dung burning stoves that heat and cook will enter the Afghan market as early as this year. We will link them to Tajikistan-based knowledge centres and actors.

Regards
Crispin trying to be practical
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