> “As yet, no biomass stove in the world is clean enough to be truly health protective in household use,” says Kirk Smith, a professor of global environmental h

> “As yet, no biomass stove in the world is clean enough to be truly health protective in household use,” says Kirk Smith, a professor of global environmental health at the University of California at Berkeley and the leading health researcher on cookstoves. My understanding is that rocket stoves[1] are extremely efficient and non-polluting. Is that incorrect, or are rocket stoves not profitable for the concerns promoting this sort of effort? > “With their system of government, they can kind of dictate what happens,” notes Jim Jetter, a senior research engineer who tests cookstoves for the EPA. Well, yes, it helps if one can sentence holdouts to the laogai. > much like some American cooks like the flavor of meat grilled over charcoal. Only some? I'm pretty sure that everyone prefers the flavour of food cooked over good lump charcoal. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_stove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_stove