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Vesto Biomass Burning Stoves: New Dawn Energy SystemsThe Vesto stove is a highly innovative, low-cost, biomass burning stove. It uses about one third of the wood or dung normally used to cook a meal. Its efficiency results from the preheating of the primary and secondary air. The incoming air insulates the firebox and the recycled heat energy is transferred to the fire. The grate is designed to swirl and mix the air, while the air control lever can create a wood gasifier. The Vesto can be used for both cooking and space warming.Two features that set this product apart are its high speed lighting and its very low smoke emissions as soon as there are flames. Weighing only 5 kg, the stove can be lit outside and then carried inside to cook. The low smoke level reduces health risks. Smoke-related lung disease is prevalent in the stove’s target market. The Vesto stove is much safer than a paraffin stove or mbaula as it contains the fire within the gas-insulated tin. Even if the stove is knocked over, the fire does not come out of the container as the maximum fuel line is lower than half the firebox height. The relatively low retail price brings the Vesto stove within reach of people at the lower end of the economic scale. Invented by Crispin Pemberton-Pigott with Rina King involved in design, the Vesto won the Chairman's award from the Design Institute of South Africa for being an "outstanding piece of design which is of the highest international standard". Webpage: www.vesto.co.za Contact: Rina King on rina@... | |
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11 September 2004; Last edited:
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