rocket stove

Posted on August 19 2008 by dan fone

This isn’t my usual type of drawing, but I thought I’d post it anyway since I didn’t manage a morning sketch. It’s for one of my parents’ friends on his way back from Kenya, this guy Eric. He likes to fiddle around with making stuff and, after retiring, he turned his attention to making little home improvements for people in east Africa. Last night he was telling us about this rocket stove (my drawing is an improved, further simplified version of the one currently on the website) and about a bunch of other simple gadgets, including a water filter made from a barrel, some sand and some gravel. Apparently this rocket stove emits far less carbon monoxide that the current popular stove in Kenya and is even cheaper and easier to make.

I just had a couple excellent coffees with Dave (tozocomic) and managed to bash out scripts and scrawls for two more Vern & Lettuce episodes. I found this nice little passive-aggressive note from an estate agent taped to my bike when I left, and it struck me as very funny.

And don’t miss it, hopelarson has posted a brilliant story, Bear Creek Apartments.
And another good one by nedroidcomics.

22 Responses to rocket stove

    • dan fone says:

      Hmm, I think I’ll hang on to my claim, particularly because I think I saw the lady eying me when I went into the coffee shop but she didn’t say anything. And I think I’m legally allowed to park there, they just don’t like it very much. But I’ll admit, it’s the nicest passive-aggressive note I’ve ever had!

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        • dan fone says:

          Ha ha, good thinking! I’d just be worried it’d rebound on the cafe, otherwise I’d do it! (Some old sourpuss is trying to shut down another cafe, possibly successfully, that I really love because she moved next to it and then objected to people locking their bikes to her iron rail and, well, basically anything else you’d expect if you moved next to a cafe. Grrr.)

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  6. dan fone says:

    Hmm, I think I’ll hang on to my claim, particularly because I think I saw the lady eying me when I went into the coffee shop but she didn’t say anything. And I think I’m legally allowed to park there, they just don’t like it very much. But I’ll admit, it’s the nicest passive-aggressive note I’ve ever had!

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  12. dan fone says:

    Ha ha, good thinking! I’d just be worried it’d rebound on the cafe, otherwise I’d do it! (Some old sourpuss is trying to shut down another cafe, possibly successfully, that I really love because she moved next to it and then objected to people locking their bikes to her iron rail and, well, basically anything else you’d expect if you moved next to a cafe. Grrr.)

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  15. jdalton says:

    That stove is awesome. I like all these low-tech high-concept inventions designed for Africa. Have you heard about the wind-up radio? If someone had thought up these things a lot sooner, our planet would probably be in a lot less of a mess than it is!

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