The New Nepali Chulo: Fuel Efficient and Smokeless Cooking Stoves

摘要

This report explains with diagrams how to build a new fuel efficient and smokeless woodburning stove, using designs chosen from several tested. The stoves can be built with local materials, using and developing skills from the area where they are to be used. These stoves result in a smokeless kitchen, improving the health conditions, and the fuel consumption is reduced by as much as 50%, depending on such things as the proper handling of dampers. Although the book does not claim to be a do-it-yourself manual, a person with basic masonry skills should be able to fashion several different kinds of these stoves from the information provided.