LuciaStove and Biochar on Good Morning Sierra Leone part I

Sierra Leone is 95% deforested. Sadly, because of the deforestation due to use of trees for fire wood and charcoal production landslides are more and more common. Here is a clip from Good Morning Sierra Leon where LuciaStoves are introduced as an alternative to charcoal for cooking.




Landslide in Sierra Leone kills seven
13 Aug 2009 19:13:41 GMT
Source: Reuters
FREETOWN, Aug 13 (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed and 15 injured when homes collapsed in a landslide in heavy rain in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Thursday, police said.
Rescue teams were searching for bodies beneath mud, stones and rubble from three hillside houses that collapsed, police official Ibrahima Samura told Reuters.
"The victims were asleep when they were trapped by the landslide," he said.
Flooding has left at least 300 people homeless, police said.
Since the start of the rainy season in June, floods and landslides have killed dozens of people in west Africa, including 19 in Ivory Coast, 16 in Ghana and seven in Benin where the government declared a state of emergency.
The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) estimates that the lives of about 150,000 people have been disrupted by floods in the region in the past two months.
On Monday, IFRC launched a pre-emptive emergency appeal for $850,000 to help 25,000 people threatened by floods and landslides in 16 West and Central African countries, including Sierra Leone, in the coming months.
"There is going to be more heavy rain in the next three months and people should at all cost vacate dangerous areas especially those living along seaside areas around the city," said John Kaamara, a geologist at the University of Sierra Leone.
A forecast for July to September by the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development predicts heavy rainfall in countries along the Gulf of Guinea, which experts say is likely to cause floods and landslides. (Reporting Christo Johnson; Additional reporting by George Fominyen in Dakar; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)

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[buttkracken]

I hope they put a more stable base on the stove. If it is prone to tip over, you will have many serious burns of women and children. Maybe some wire or rod feet would be in order.

[WorldStove]

@buttkracken Thanks for the comment. The stove you see in the video is only the base unit. Kinda like a motor without the chassis or wheels. Each country we go to we study local cooking traditions and then adapt to how people like to cook there. For an example of one adaptation check out the video called a Togolese LuciaStove

[deezynar]

It's great that the folks in Sierra Leone are having a meaningful discussion about this stove.

The statistic you gave about how many people die each year from cooking stove smoke is astonishing! Anything that reduces that # is a blessing. Plus, the stove conserves trees, which reduces erosion issues, AND it produces a "waste product" that's a fertilizer! Very impressive.

What's your opinion on the comparative benefits of your stove & solar cookers?

[WorldStove]

@deezynar It just makes sense (and increases acceptance rates) to adapt the technology to the people and cooking traditions rather than force people to give up their traditions to adapt to a new technology. Humbling that a country that has seen such tragedy can have such meaningful discussion about these cooking options.

[ITCOMPLECATED]

Get a teleprompter!

[MrSchpankme]

ALL oil producing countries Flash-Off (to burn in the atmosphere) more Natural Gas then they can use in one year; and here we watch people having to cook on Bio Type Stoves. Thank you for providing this stove opportunity, to these deserving people. You may need to do the same to the American Population after the Economic Crash.

[WorldStove]

@marthale7 Thank you for the wonderful tip. I’ve been reading up on Moringa. What an incredibly useful plant, and so well suited for many of the countries where we are doing LuciaStove projects.

Will keep you posted on some field tests.

[marthale7]

@WorldStove Look at both on youtube search Moringa, and search Neem. I am now growing Moringa because it has HIGH nutrition, and grows FAST. I bought one 3 inch tall back in Febuary and it is now over 6 feet tall. The seeds can be used to purify water. Neem, natural pesticide, and fungicide. Takes a long time to grow, but used in India for pest control works wonders. Also good for skin, also look for it here on youtube.

[tamahck]

Ciao Nat,

sono Emanuele, il ragazzo di Verona che era venuto tempo fa a Tortona.

Ti faccio tantissimi complimenti per tutti i tuoi successi che stai avendo.

Ti seguo sempre e sono tuttora innamorato della LuciaStove.

[WorldStove]

@deezynar I agree, I could be happier about the fact that Sierra Leone has really embraced the project at both a grass roots and national level. As an engineer I love solar cookers for their simplicity and environmental benefits, as a glutton and out of respect to all people, I like that we adapt the LuciaStoves to local cooking traditions.

[WorldStove]

@marthale7 would very much like to learn more about Neem and Moringa