Modern stove designs

Modern stove designs

As concerns about air pollution, deforestation, and climate change have increased, new efforts have been made to improve stove design.^[3] The largest strides have been made in innovations for biomass burning stoves, such as the wood burning stoves used in many of the most populous countries. These new designs address the fundamental problem that wood and other biomass fires inefficiently consume large amounts of fuel to produce relatively small amounts of heat, while producing fumes that cause significant indoor^[4] and environmental pollutants. The World Health Organization has documented the significant number of deaths caused by smoke from home fires.^[5] Increases in efficiency mean that a stove's users can spend less time gathering wood or other fuels, suffer less emphysema and other lung diseases prevalent in smoke-filled homes, while reducing deforestation and air pollution.