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Boiling Point 38: Household energy in high cold regions - April 1997
[top] [end]OverviewHow do you define an efficient stove? For most people living in the South, it would be one which cooked food using a minimum amount of fuel in a reasonable amount of time. To achieve this, all the heat produced must be directed at the cooking pots and as little as possible lost to the surroundings. However, for those people living in cold, high regions, the stove may also be needed for heating the home. In these circumstances, heat lost to the surroundings is no longer regarded as waste heat. Any improved stove which is introduced in these regions must still provide space heating. Until recently, governments, programme planners, and researchers have failed to take this into account.Many cold, high regions are desperately short of woodfuel for burning. Three-stone fires bum fuel inefficiently, providing less heat than a well-designed stove and producing large amounts of smoke. Because windows allow heat to escape, the rooms in these regions often have very little ventilation and the smoke cannot escape. This edition of Boiling Point looks at ways in which different areas have approached the problem of providing stoves which reduce wood consumption and smoke emission whilst providing space heating as well as heat for cooking. [top] [end]Articles in Knowledge Bank
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