Dear Mr. Crispin, Thank for the attention looking at the Kopernik website. I am currently in Jakarta together with Mrs. Utami attenting a workshop, "Gender and biomass energy". In short, designing stove must consider gender factor, particularly women, since women are mostly standing in front of stove. Then, this afternoon, we will be discussing more on the standardization of biomass stoves performance.
The UB-03.1 is another version of our biomass UB-03 stove. It should be better than the cylindrical version, since it has four pillars, which avoid user from touching hot parts of stove. However, due to technical problem, at the moment we stop the production of the UB-03.1, until the problem is resolved. This technical problem is how to make the connections between the stove components, in order fire can be extinguished without emitting too much smokes. It is actually the matter of dyes, and of money, of course. The UB-03.1 distributed in East Flores are still used by people. Even UB-03.1 were made from low cost metal plats, but it can last at least, until recently, already 8 months. However, in Lombok, the stove lifetimes were merely less then 4 months. The lifetime of the stoves certainly depend on users. In East Flores, the stoves can last longer, since the people use the stove with care, according to the manual procedure, while in Lombok were not. In some cases, people shut down the fire by dropping water on fire. It is why a system that can extinguish fire is very important. I feel sorry that I still do not send the stoves to Dian Desa. Kind regards M. Nurhuda > Dear Friends > > > > Dr Muhammad Nurhuda has been making these stoves for some time. I do not > know if it is still available and cannot confirm the performance claims. > There is a great picture of a 3-concrete block fire in East Timor at the > top. > > > > http://kopernik.info/en-us/technology/biomass-stove-ub03-1-stove > > > > It reads that it can burn a mix of biomass and 'coal' but I think it means > to say 'charcoal'. > > > > The site > http://inventionstories.com/invention_stories/invention_stories/category/tal > es_from_the_inventor/page/2/ says it was supported by the Lemelson > Foundation's RAMP program. > > > > Regards > > Crispin > > _______________________________________________ > Stoves mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: > http://www.bioenergylists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
