This year’s extreme affordability class included another team who worked with IDE Myanmar to continue refining the cook stove design that our team began last year. Fuel.d, the team made up of Lauren Hult, Tomas Pueyo, Santhi Elayaperumal, and Taiei Harimoto let us drop in on one of their testing sessions in June to see the pot skirt they designed and the merits of placing it over a three-brick stove so that it acts like a heat shield. Though it is not as efficient as replacing the three-brick stove with a rocket stove, pot skirts can be made cheaply, and could offer a lower price solution for those who cannot afford to buy a stove immediately.

Fuel.d also gave us great suggestions for making our stove design more robust and efficient. We can’t wait to try out their ideas in our next prototype!

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