Message-ID: <36F0F913.7F09@icrw.org> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:01:07 -0500 From: Brij Mathur <mailto:bmathur@icrw.org> Subject: Stove Designs To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
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All inquiries regarding this booklet should be sent to Development Books and Services at the address given below.
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Capturing HEAT, written by Dean Still and Jim Kness and published by the Aprovecho Research Center is now being distributed by the Development Books & Services.
What follows is a review of this book by Richard Perez --
"'Capturing HEAT' is a hands-on, do-it-yourself, guide to five different and efficient cookers. Two of the cooker designs use direct solar energy, two efficiently burn wood, and one is an insulated box which reuses existing heat in the pot and food. All are simple to build. The plans are detailed and complete."
"This book is about cooker construction with common hand tools and non-esoteric materials. For example, the wood burning "Winiarski Rocket Stove" uses a five gallon, square, cooking oil tin, some stovepipe, wire, and a common tin can. No high tech materials here, the Rocket even uses wood ashes as insulation. While the raw materials are dumpster divings, the design is sophisticated and well thought out. The stove features input air control and input air preheating. The Rocket reaches firebox temperatures above 1,100xF -- this makes for efficient combustion with a minimum of wood consumption and pollution."
"A larger variation of the Rocket stove is made from two 55 gallon drums. This bread oven will bake 20 loaves of bread (about 66 pounds) while consuming only 11 pounds of firewood."
"What really impressed me about all the designs in 'Capturing HEAT' was the no nonsense technical explanations of how that specific cooker and heat in general work. This depth of informa- tion allows the cooker builder to easily adapt the design to specific needs and materials. Although this book is slim, only 35 pages, it contains more hard information than most books ten times its size."
The cost of 'Capturing HEAT' is $7.00 plus $4.00 for ship- ping and handling to an address in the USA. Overseas orders should include $5.00 for surface mail and $8.00 for airmail shipment.
All orders must be pre-paid in US dollars. Checks drawn on a bank in the USA should be made pauable to B. Mathur and should be mailed to the Development Books & Services, 16402 Andrea Court, Bowie, Maryland 20716, USA.
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