THE BROWN CLOUD

摘要

Shakuntala Devi Was Fixing Dinner in The Village of Ashrafpur. She said she was 50, Indians of an older generation tending to estimate their ages in multiples of 10. She was using two stoves, one the traditional hump of molded mud and the other-furnished by the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)- an improved model made of stainless steel, with a ceramic interior. "The problem with cookstoves is that they're not sexy," said TERI's Ibrahim Hafeez Rehman, who grew up in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, watching people cook with biomass and sicken from the smoke. "But lighting and cooking are people's two main requirements. To complete the household story, you need to integrate both."