<div>Dear Mr. Rondi,</div>
<div>people and project funders ask for stoves with chimney, mainly because that has always been the means of taking the smake out of the kitchen. But new designs of stoves are now available, which do not generate any smoke. We now install very simple stoves which have no chimney at all. The body of our stove is made of clay but one needs a cast iron grate of 15cm X 15 cm. The stoves are made by using a mould. You may have to purchase the mould from us and also a video CD, which shows step by step how to construct the stove by using the mould. </div>
<div>Yours</div>
<div>A.D.Karve <br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Francesco Vitali <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:francesco.vitali@ing.unibs.it">francesco.vitali@ing.unibs.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am writing you for having a suggestion. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am from an Italian research center on appropriate technologies for environmental management.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Me and my colleagues are working on a water&sanitation project in a rural area in Burkina Faso. The local NGO partner in the project asked us a suggestion on a model of improved wood-stove to disseminate on site. We have some experience in stove dissemination (Chad and Cameroun), but in this case the info requested by the local partner goes a bit beyond our knowledge.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Currently we are not on site, so we have to give them an answer from remote.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The main constraints are:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<li style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">Time: the partner local NGO wants to start the training for artisans within two weeks</li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">budget available from the project is very low (about 1,500€ for some 50 stoves)</li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">local reproduction: the stove has to be built by local artisans, properly trained</li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">location: the stove has to be placed inside the kitchens (circular huts in mud with thatched roofs, typical rural buildings)</li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">a chimney for smoke removal is required according to preferences expressed by local users </li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">local technical skills and tools are really basic (no electricity, no welding, low availability of metal parts, mud/brick stoves are likely to be the preferred option) </li>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">If someone has any successful experience in similar contexts or a good advice, it will be very welcome! in particular we are looking for simple manuals or technical drawings to send to our local partner.</font></div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">looking forward for your advice, thank you in advance</span></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">best regards</span></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:13px">Luca Rondi, Francesco Vitali</span></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><u></u><u></u></font>
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