The ACE 1 stove from African Clean Energy combines elements of solar and biomass power to offer an eco-friendly cooking solution that also charges electronic devices. The stove is a cooking/charging ...

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On a typical day in Tezo, Kenya, the sun blazes at nearly 100 o F in a cloudless blue sky. It is late in the afternoon by the time the women and young girls return with water, dusty and tired from the ...

Bangalore: For rural women exposed to hazardous toxic emissions and smoke from burning biomass like wood, crop waste and animal dung during cooking, there is now cause for cheer. Envirofit ...

A few tin cans and a penknife were all an 18-year-old Cork student needed to get started on inventing a revolutionary biomass-fired cooking stove for developing countries that secured the top prize at ...

For this gritty daughter of an Indian Army officer, 2007 was a year of hope. India’s economy was red hot. She and her three friends had spring in their feet when they decided to start a firm to ...

Biomass chulhas seek to address air pollution that is believed to cause death of nearly 12 lakh people in India, Envirofit’s chulhas save fuel costs and time benefiting nearly 25 lakh people.

Mumbai-based biomass cooking stove maker Greenway Appliances has secured $2.5 million as part of a Series A round of funding from former Genpact CEO Pramod Bhasin and others, according to a report by ...

Nolbert Muhumuza is making it possible to use clean cooking stoves in Uganda. He tells Amos Ngwomoya how his enterprise, Awamu Biomass Energy Ltd, is replacing traditional cook stoves that use ...

Mumbai-based Greenway Grameen Infra has set up India’s largest manufacturing unit for biomass cook stoves in Vadodara. “Our flagship product is a high-efficiency cook stove that burns all biomass ...

The risks from biomass stoves could be lowered by ventilating the kitchen with a chimney or window above the stove, according to Manas Ranjan Ray, lead author of the study and head of CNCI’s ...