HENYA STOVE, KENYA AUGUST 2003

Visit By Rob Bailis August 2003

Henya Stove I in a disassembled state. Its modular so that separate pieces can be replaced as they break or wear out.	Stove in use in Njagu kitchen (thats his elder daughter). It was pretty clean burning (the visible vapor is steam from the pot). Of course, the kitchen was well-ventilated (note the window above the stove, which helps for IAP but makes it hard to judge smokiness of the stove.
Stove for 500 KSh or a bit less than $7 - just for reference, thats about double the price of a typical medium size charcoal KCJ.	I put a 1 liter Nalgene bottle next to it so you can see the size.
Standard Henya stove (He said he'd sold about about 20 this month).

The inner chamber is the same on both stoves. The clay-hybrid is an attempt to cut materials costs. I bought both stoves for the same 6-7 dollars He's not selling them yet because he's still testing the design.

The stoves stray quite a bit from the "Rocket" ideal, but this was after extensive customer feedback forced Richard away from some of those design principles. As this makes up a good part of his livelihood, he can't ignore consumer preferences even if they force him to opt for less efficient designs. Of course, he can't afford to do the kind of marketing that might influence his customers to sacrifice some of their stove/fuel preferences or prejudices in favor of cleaner burning or more efficient stoves. However, a group like WinkRock could...

Rob Bailis, Kenya,. August 2003