Biomass Stove

Library - Technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_stove

Being able to make this simple stove could be a life saver in many situations. Thanks to worldwide initiatives to improve stoves for developing counties and the internet many smart people have been working on improving the basic stoves design to make it easy to source the parts and tools needed to manufacture and run the stove.

Normal cooking methods produce allot of smoke which is very damaging to the lungs of the person that has to stand beside it cooking, in the western 1st world we have modern kitchens but in developing 3rd world counties they use very old methods of cooking that are shortening their life's. In a Zombie apocalypse situation a fire is a great big shining beacon pointing out your location to everything for miles around.

So along come people like BT Ireland's young scientist of the year Richard O’Shea who has designed a highly efficient biomass stove that can be made entirely out of common scrap (even the tools needed to make it are common scrap) that runs on waste and doesn't produce a whole lot of smoke luring god knows what towards your position.

Try as I might I couldn't come across any plans for Richards stove, if they do pop up I'll link to them but in the mean time here's another young lad giving a walk through on how to make one roughly the same.