Rwanda Stove Design Happenings

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Designs:
Pyrolysis/Multistage Stove
Experimental for later on= would be hard to redesign for Rwanda, but we're not giving up yet...
Long John Stove
Materials: Clay/Mud bricks (lots of them), sheet metal, metal rod, metal disks...
How do we make bricks? == 4x4 Grid and as they dry they will compact
***HAS CHIMNEY!!!
Firewood Saving Stove
Materials: Clay, Sand, 7 Bricks, Water
Brad offered to go to Home Depot to pick up a box of 3" nails and 7 bricks...Thanks BLAAD!!
Need to think about creating a chimney...
Step 1:
Make Prototype of Clay Stove
Where can we Build it? Forest Products Lab?
Where can we Burn to test? Forest Products Lab?
Will we be able to Move it?
Dolley? Carts?
Where can we Get materials?
Bricks=Hardware store
Clay= Humanities (John's in charge) AND River bank
==Bank excavation SUNDAY 1pm E-HALL
Next week: POSSIBLY meeting w/ Forest Products Lab people @ 6pm monday...emails will come later...