Re: FIRE WOOD COOKING: increasing efficiciency! and BEEKEEPING!

[Dr Sushil Sharma]

Dear Dara,

We have recently made 400 chullahs in the Okhalkanda are with the help of ARTI, a resource group based out of Pune. Our success rate in terms of acceptability is 75%, which is not bad at all. Okhalkanda block has most homes cooking in open fire places inside their homes! We would be happy to have people visit Okhalkanda, see the chullahs, and try to spread them in as many mountain homes as possilbe. The addition of a secondary air inlet increases the efficiency of combustion and has reduced the consumption of wood by around 50%. The wood used is also of thinner diameter, all working to reduce the drudgery of women.

We also have knowledge of making the Danish `masseovne’ (essentially Finnish design) and you can see that in operation in the hospital. Also working on the simpler rocket stoves. Have a ready model at home, waiting to be fired. Aarohi is spreading these models on a turnkey basis.

Love

Sushil

Dr Sushil Sharma
Aarohi
Village Satoli, P.O. Peora
District Nainital, Uttarakhand 263138
www.aarohi.org
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On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:08 AM, dara lorenzen <daralo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Mukul, Sushil and Rajnish,

Greetings from Madhuban ! 

Besides installing a parabolic SOLAR cooker from UREDA  in our kitchen  recently that is working really well and saving gas as when sun is there,  I am writing you in order to share/comment on:

1 ) models or fuel efficient chullas or firewood devices.

We all know that the traditional method of firewood cooking is well spread in our KUmaon area and that open fire cooking is  very inefficient in an open chulla! 

does any one of you have in your own NGO's done some experiences in this FIELD  and would like to share? 

I saw some biomass cooking stove with pellets in Avani, but pellets are not available here ! 

2) Beekeeping . After a not very succesful experience last year in introducing  Apis cerana and mellifera in our area, and being a lover of bees..... I am interested collecting  info again from each one of you in this regard so you can send me the contact person in your org dealing with this issue..

Thanks in advance! 

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Smiles, Dara

Madhuban,Talla Ramgarh,
Dist Nainital
Mob. Uttarakhand: +91 8475 031 011

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