ATN began a commercial application of the rocket stove development program with the African Bagel Company. Martin Koonce with the help of Robin Smith, developer of the African Bagel Company, built a brick rocket stove for them to use in the cooking process. This allowed them to boil more bagels (a type of bread) more… [Continue Reading]

Over the past several months, Martin Koonce has developed many different stove models that use charcoal or wood to reduce the amount of fuel needed to cook a family meal. It is well known that the use of charcoal is a primary cause of deforestation and ATN is looking for alternatives in cookstoves as well… [Continue Reading]

Martin Koonce was able to develop an all brick model rocket stove that could be used for large families or have industrial application for restaurants. It heats quickly and effectively and boils twenty liters of water in 41 minutes using 500 franc of charcoal.

In September, ATN developed a second model for the rocket stove using local bricks and mortar but on a smaller scale in order to test the efficiency against the cook stove that has the clay inset. It retained heat well and used the charcoal efficiently as it was small in size and was able to… [Continue Reading]

During the month of August, ATN began the development phase for efficient cook stoves. The first model developed was one that used bricks and mortar and could burn as fuel either wood, charcoal, or biomass. It was a successful design, although being a fixed stove, upon lighting there was a great deal of smoke for… [Continue Reading]