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The rocket stove aims to address multiple issues across health, quality of life and environmental sustainability.
Environmental Sustainability – Deforestation is an issue across the globe and residential use of wood for cooking is a large contributor to the cutting down of trees in developing countries. Removal of trees reduces the Earth’s capacity to process the carbon dioxide released from human activity. Additionally, this “stored” carbon is then released when combusted. Carbon dioxide, methane and carbon monoxide is released in the burning of wood – when inefficient combustion occurs, black carbon is emitted. Black carbon is one of the top contributors to global warming.
Health – Respiratory issues associated with cooking are estimated to result in over 4.3 million deaths per year. Current methods of burning fuels for cooking are inefficient, cause a lot of smoke and production of harmful gases.
Quality of life – The smoke from inefficient combustion also results in significant discomfort during cooking, causing itchy eyes, coughing and carbon (soot) on the walls and roof.
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Sustainable Development Goal Targeted: Affordable and clean energy.
Solar Consulting aims to address several issues in emerging economies:
Lack of access - the energy situation in developing countries can be dire. In Malawi for example, 90% of the population is off the grid and the remaining 10% don't have access to consistent power. Over half of the current 1.06 billion people who still function without electricity live in sub-Saharan Africa.
Productivity- electric light improves the productivity of communities by providing additional hours of time through which they can complete tasks. This is particularly important for children who can use this time to increase educational and developmental outcomes.
Financial constraint- families spend large amounts of their income on candles, paraffin lamps and charging their phones at local shops. Solar solutions enable families to reduce their first year costs by 50% and to zero ongoing for the life of the product.
Poor health- candles and paraffin emit smoke in closed environments which is detrimental to long-term health.
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