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Video: Building a Rocket Stove
Step by step instructions on how to build a simple, single-pot rocket stove. This video also includes a section on making insulative refractory bricks.

Video: How to Build an Insitutional Barrel Stove
A multi-part video with step by step instructions for building an institutionally sized rocket stove made from metal barrels. 
Click here to download the excel file for calculating proper gaps

Video: Shell Foundation- Breathing Space India
Developing improved cooking stoves for markets in India

Learn more about the Shell Foundation's Breathing Space program. This video describes this ambitious project to design, manufacture, and distribute 5 - 7 million improved cook stoves in India. (click here to learn more about the Shell Foundation and thier programs)

Video: "Rocket Science"
Clean burning institutional stoves in Africa

Aprovecho and ProBEC takes second prize in the Ashden Awards for, in the words of the judging panel, "helping to spread the adoption of an innovative, clean-burning stove technology across the region through the stimulation of local enterprise". Aprovecho and ProBEC have designed and promoted a series of locally-adapted fuel efficient stoves for use in large institutions such as schools, hospitals, orphanages and prisons which radically cut the use of fuel wood. This is crucial in a region suffering from severe deforestation. (low-res version for slow connections)

Video: Charcoal burning Rocket stove

Dean Still demonstrates how adding a short insulated chimney to the combustion chamber of a charcoal burning stove can significantly reduce carbon monoxide emissions. (low-res version for slow connections)

Instructional Video: Building a VITA Stove

This short instructional video shows the step-by-step process for building a simple low cost cook stove out of sheet metal. Click here for detailed printable instructions on building a VITA stove

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Ann Dornfeld's (KLCC/NPR) report on
Cleaner Burning Cook Stoves

Ann Dornfeld reports on the ASAT Lab and our efforts to reduce indoor air pollution and develop fuel efficiant cooking and heating stoves.

Design Principles for Wood Burning Cook Stoves
This manual covers the principles of Heat Transfer and Combustion Efficiency (en Español)

Designing Improved Wood Burning Heating Stoves
Various types of Heating Stoves are discussed in this illustrated booklet
(Spanish Version)

Designing a Clean-Burning, High-Efficiency, Dung Burning Stove
Lessons in cooking with cow patties

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