Aprovecho Research Center eNewsletter

What a Great Year! Regional Testing and Knowledge Centers ARC just received a grant to hire full time

AI: Great but Stuck in a Box It's great to have colleagues whose opinions are trusted. Dr. Larry

Cleaning Up Combustion: TOO COLD! In the middle of August, we had three stoves under development

Lowering Emissions in a Short, Natural Draft TLUD The great thing about 12” high tincanium natural

Learning From People A rat proof box When Dr. Larry Winiarski and I lived for a season at Rancho San

Capacity Building with CSIR Over the past 3 years, thanks to three grants from Fire Capital,

Concentrator Disk/Chimney in a TLUD When I asked Google AI, “Is flow more laminar in a smaller

Carbon Credits and Fuel Savings? Photo from TREEAID on Flickr Looking at the photo it is easy to

The Water Boiling Test, Repeatedly In my opinion, the WBT* cannot be used, especially in the lab, to

The Concentrator Ring in a TLUD Image from Dr. Paul Anderson's Introduction to TChar (TLUD)

Supporting Best Practice Cooking outdoors, making hot fires, burning the tips of sticks to use less

Winiarski: Improving Agricultural Food Dryers Sometimes it's too cloudy for solar drying and a

Welcome to our intermittent special edition "What's Cooking at Aprovecho" E-Newsletter,

Help Us Empower Engineers in Developing Countries — $1000 Goal ARC Engineer Jaden Berger with the

Market Driven Stoves Photo by Güldem Üstün on Flickr One of the biggest mistakes I have made was

Fireless Cooking Has A Long History Thanks to Robert Fairchild for sending this reminder that what we

Remembering Ken Goyer On the front porch of the house he built in West Eugene, Ken Goyer shows an

New on the Website! Improving Biomass Stoves 2025 Find a download link here The new Osprey funded

Aprovecho Research Center, 2025 ARC started in 1976, almost 50 years ago. In 1982, the original cook

Building Blocks to Health In 2018, the World Health Organization published the book “Air pollution

Applications of Pulling Woodgas Through Burning Charcoal We experimented at SSM with a “Horizontal

Wow! The Clean Biomass Future Is Now! Central Boiler combustion chamber Last week Dean and Travis

Wood Heating: Heating Design Load Burning wood slowly (and cleanly) can be a big part of the

An Easier Institutional Stove? Libhubesi stove (photo: New Dawn Engineering) Institutional-size

Working in a Forest Schoolhouse Creek, filled with late winter run off, rushes along next to the

Secondary Air Injection Dr. Tom Reed's Alpha Limited Forced Draft TLUD stoves Lefebvre,

Wow! Tom Reed Forced Draft TLUDs Are Great! The Tom Reed Alpha Limited Forced Draft TLUD stoves (

No More Carbon? The popular Jiko stove, photo by AIDG on Flickr With carbon prices low and support

Thermal Efficiency: How High Can We Go? From SAMUEL BALDWIN'S “BIOMASS STOVES: ENGINEERING DESIGN

Improving Market Based Products to Reduce Wood Use and Emissions A two dollar and fifty cent SSM