Tag: BEIA
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Mwoto – The Power of Fire
Recently I developed the promotion page for an energy saving stove called Mwoto. The MWOTO cookstove was developed within the ‘Promoting Improved Top-Lit Updraft (TLUD) Cookstoves in Uganda” project by CREEC. It’s one of the Biomass Energy Initiative for Africa (BEIA) projects running all over Africa. This stove is a TLUD and this means that it’s lit from…
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BEIA – Biomass Energy Initiative Africa
Biomass is and will continue to be a predominant local source of energy in Sub‐Saharan Africa for many decades, since it is used for a lot of purposes. More than three billion people worldwide rely on biomass for cooking and heating. In addition to unsustainable utilisation of biomass, the use of indoor open fires represents an…