Stovesonline stove news
Stovesonline subsidises New Laos stoves and offsetts CO2 emissions
December, 2007
In Cambodia many people cook on inefficient charcoal stoves. This increases deforestation and increases their fuel expenses. By helping manufacturers to make more fuel efficient stoves deforestation is reduces as are fuel expenses. This reduces CO2 emissions.
We have subsidised the New Laos stove project to the extent that we have saved at least 32 tonnes of CO2.
Read more about the New Laos stove project here.
Stovesonline subsidises Darfur fuel efficient stoves
December, 2007
Displaced person in Darfur are crowded into camps in arid landscapes. To cook often means a 7hr hunt for firewood outside the camp. Outside the camp it is dangerous and women are regularly attacked. A simple fuel efficient stove cuts fuel consumption by 75% reducing risk to the women, reducing denudation of the sparce forest.
We subsidise 3 of these stoves every month and also subsidised 20 of these stoves in Decemeber.
Read more about Darfur stoves here.
Stovesonline launches Workshopstoves.co.uk
November, 2007
On 12th November we launched Workshopstoves.co.uk. Workshopstoves.co.uk features our Greenheart workshop stoves which can burn wood offcuts, shavings as well as sawdust. A wide range of workshop stove flue pipe and flashings are also there - everything needed to install a workshop stove.
There is a lot of advice about workshop stoves and flue systems as well as an online installation assistant will quickly design a variety of workshop stove flue systems based on 6 different flue configurations. The installation assistant then adds all the parts needed to a shopping cart, which can then be paid for by credit/debit card then and there.
Go to the Workshopstoves.co.uk website
Selkirk announce new ventilation method
October, 2007
Selkirk announce an innovative new ventilation system that means that STC twin wall flue is the only flue in the UK that can be boxed in with non ventilated floor penetration components. Why do we care about that? Well the ventilated components allow the transmission of smoke (as well as noise, dust, smells, etc) and as far as we are concerned this is potentially dangerous as the room directly above a stove is usually a bedroom.
For a fuller discussion of ventilated floor stops click here.
Low Carbon Building Programme
April, 2007
The Trade Associations for stoves, the Solid Fuel Association are battling against the Low carbon building programme fiasco, the Solar Trade Association has urged all it's members not to take part in the scheme.
To apply for the grant you have to have the solar, wind, or stove tecnology installed by an 'approved' installer. This approval is a secondary scheme to the already running and functioning the 'Competant Persons Scheme' so there is no need for it. Approval costs a lot of money which means that this cost is passed on to the customer which means that the customer gains little if anything.
Read more on our Low Carbon Building Programme page
The musical stove
May 14th, 2007
Some UK universities are working on an ingenious project. When a gas is heated unevenly it produces pressure waves - basically sound waves. These pressure waves can be converted to electricity by the reverse process in which electricity is used to make sound from a loudspeaker. The group are designing a stove that burns wood or other biomass fuels that heats one end of a tube containing gas. This forms pressure waves which are then converted to electricity. A heat exchanger is powered by this electricity to drive a fridge. The stove can also be cooked on in the normal way. The stove will be most suited to developing countries as it will provide cooking, electricty and refridgeration all in one and with no need for a power supply (other than biomass fuel).
Read the full article at Nature.com Burning wood to power fridges.
Building regs Doc L and heating with wood
April 6th, 2007
New changes to Building regulations document L: the conservation of heat and power mean that as of April 6th building projects coming under building control will have to assess and potentially reduce their C02 emission rate by 20%. This reduction can be effectively achieved by improvements to insulation and by installing more enviromnetally friendly heating - such as a wood burning stove, wood pellet or wood chip stove / boiler.
Read more about wood heating as related to document L compliance.
Now there's a solid case for installing a stove
The Guardian
Saturday March 25, 2006
A well written article covering the increased use of central heating stoves as oil and gas prices rise. Sune Nightingale of Stovesonline was interviewed for this piece and the article discussed the heating system that he uses in his house.
Read the full article on the Guardian website
Okehampton under 13's football team
Winter 2006
Okehampton is the hometown of Stovesonline director Alan Hooper and we sponsored the under 13's Okehampton football team by getting them their football tops. We think that they look great. The team are pictured here with Alan Hooper on the left at the back.
Refugee stoves used after the Pakistan earthquake
In the Winter of 2005 we supplied 500 stoves and flue kits to Cromwell International, a UK based exporter, who shipped the stoves as part of the relief effort by UN agencies to Pakistan.
These stoves were intended primarily for heating but their flat tops also make them ideal for cooking. The easy to assemble flue system means that they are very quick to install - and simple and intuitive to operate.
These stoves are a variant of our workshop stoves that we had specially made.
Hotpod stoves
The BBC 2 series "Pay off your mortgage" featured Dan Harding and his family who were set the task of paying off their mortgage in 2 years. Dan had created a very unique stove made largely from VW parts which he called the Hotpod. John Nightingale (MD of Stovesonline) was called in as a stove consultant to help advise Dan how to make the stove commercially.
After the programme Dan was inundated with orders for the Hotpods. Why not have a look at the stoves on his website HotCreations.co.uk.
