Hybrid Solar Kitchens (with LPG back up)
According to reports published by The Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP, ‘Energy Road Map to Achieving MDG Targets –Kenya Sectoral Energy Requirements, 2006’), ‘the stage has been reached where the rate of the use of firewood has outstripped that of biomass replacement, and the situation is bound to get worse in the years ahead unless drastic measures are taken’.
Given Kenya’s large wood fuel deficit that now stands at 15.6 million cubic meters (2023), low tree cover (<10%, low terrestrial capacity for biomass generation), and high rate of deforestation (6, 290 ha in 2022, Global Forest Watch), it is unlikely that the situation will be arrested through a single supply-side intervention in the form of tree planting and in the absence of a cost-effective and sustainable alternative to wood fuel as deployed in tea processing and large-scale cooking in the education sector.
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Thermofield Industrial’s proprietary designs of fixed – focus Scheffler parabolic dishescome in sizes of 16 and 32 m 2 (6 and12 16 kWp) raising up to 600 O Celsius at the focus. Parabolic dish technology is suited to small installations… Read more: Fixed focus Parabolic Dishes - Engineered Biochar (EB)
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Scientific Pyro-Culture Humanity has always used controlled burning as a form of ecological engineering, learning from the fact that the tree and plant growth regenerating after naturally-occurring bush fires appeared healthier and attracted larger concentrations of wildlife populations and later… Read more: Bamboo Wood Vinegar, Scientific Pyro-Culture - Humic + Fulvic Acid (HA+FA) Restoring Balance to the Soil Biome
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