[Stoves] ***SPAM*** Bamboo as direct cooking fuel (Not as charcoal)

[K McLean]

Sun24 is working with the Catholic Church in Africa to enable every family
to grow their own bamboo.  I think we can do this in many dioceses in just
a few years.  Bamboo is easily propagated.  Two clumps of bamboo should
provide enough cooking fuel year round.

We've informally tested bamboo in three stone cookstoves with rock bed
grates and bamboo works almost as well as wood.   It burns hotter and gives
more ash than wood but works well.  Since women in Sub-Saharan Africa spend
an average of 2.1 hours per day collecting firewood
<http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/164241468178757464/pdf/98664-REVISED-WP-P146621-PUBLIC-Box393185B.pdf>,
I think they will welcome a shift from firewood to growing and using bamboo.

Are you aware of any testing of bamboo as direct cooking fuel or efforts to
shift cooking from wood to bamboo?  I can't find much.

Thanks,
Kevin McLean
Sun24
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