Waste-Powered, Award-Winning Stove Cuts Smoke in China's Countryside

When asked about China's impact on the world's climate, Mr Pan was sanguine about the country's multi-sided, public-private approach to the problem:
As a manager of a small enterprise, I think I should run my own company very well and contribute to this process. We have a philosophy: to do practical things in terms of energy saving and emissions reductions, so that we can have a better environment. And in doing this we address the same environmental concerns as the central government. It’s my opinion that adopting these stoves across the country could reduce emissions by around 20%. There are currently some 200 million rural households in China, and almost all of them have coal stoves.
Those households aren't just potential renewable energy users. They're potential customers.
via Chinadialogue
See the other winners from India, Peru, Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal, Ghana, Tanzania and Laos here. And see our coverage of pellet stoves, plant oil stoves, and corn kernel stoves.
Waste-Powered, Award-Winning Stove Cuts Smoke in China's Countryside
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