Iterative Development: Addressing Health & Climate Change

Iterative Development: 

Addressing Health & Climate Change

Thanks to the Osprey Foundation, ARC just finished building a new heating stove lab and we are experimenting with how to make very clean burning home heating stoves. The intended price points are considerably lower than higher emission stoves currently for sale. Zero Green Premium products cost less than the dirty technology products they replace. 

ARC uses the Iterative Development process (see above) to create market viable products. Dr. Sam Baldwin started us on this path in 1987. He described how to develop and disseminate improved cook stoves with simultaneous lab and field-testing in his important book: http://www.newdawnengineering.com/website/library/Papers+Articles/Biomass%20Stoves,%20Engineering%20Design,%20Development%20and%20Dissemination,%20Samuel%20Baldwin%201987.pdf

We change one variable at a time in a prototype and test the result under the emissions hood that collects and records the amounts of climate gases and Black Carbon. Usually ~50 iterations result in a closer to optimal stove. The new Osprey Health and Climate Heating Stove Lab is set up to do 3 to 6 iterations per week. Lab staff includes Travis Volpe who builds, tests and changes prototypes. The prototype is thoroughly field-tested, as well.

Clean burning for cooking and heating stoves!