The Challenge 

Currently, 3 billion people continue to live in poverty and struggle to meet their most basic needs, like clean cooking. The only accessible sources of energy for cooking are highly polluting open fires. Sustainable alternatives are not economically feasible, and the currently available "improved" cookstoves do not meet the cultural needs. Then, the question that follows is: how can people living in poverty, improve their life quality in a sustainable way? More specifically, how can the 3 billion people that currently rely on low-efficiency open fire cooking, access clean alternatives that are sustainable and culturally acceptable?

The Solution

A novel clean cookstove with heat recovery, enhanced efficiency, and pollution reduction to replace the traditional biomass cooking technology of the 3 billion people currently living in poverty. The concept has been validated with Computational Fluid Dynamics using cluster computers and tested in rural communities with our partners on the ground.

The Mission

We use science to develop sustainable and culturally acceptable solutions to the basic energy needs of people living in poverty around the world. Specifically, we focus on the creation of high-quality technology for clean cooking, to replace open fires.

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