Koteshwor Nepal

As we’ve written before, there are many exciting and technically advanced efforts in the field of clean cook stoves. These efforts seek to solve the indoor air pollution problems associated with wood fuels, thereby improving the lives of millions of women and children worldwide. Many of these stove technologies also cite reductions in carbon emissions and reduced deforestation as indirect benefits (often leveraging these offsets as a potential funding source). While we applaud these efforts for their ingenuity, there may be far simpler (albeit less elegant) solutions that can achieve the same ends rapidly at a fraction of the cost.
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