Cleaner air through healthier cooking practices

The Fortué Sustainable Fuel Stove uses biogas or biomass technology to provide developing communities with an inexpensive alternative to solid-fuel cooking systems. Elegant, flexible and cost-effective, it will save forests from deforestation and make the air inside homes cleaner and safer.

About this Project

• Project idea:
  Fortue Sustainable Fuel Stove aims to reduce health risks from cooking fuels in developing communities around the world.
  
  2.5 billion people worldwide rely on solid fuel energy for cooking. Burning solid fuel for energy releases harmful toxins into the air, in developing countries people cook indoors on open fires, this causes Indoor Air Pollution (IAP). Not only does use of solid fuels cause IAP but it also depletes the worlds natural resources due to deforestation and IAP claims the lives of 1.5 million people each year.
  The Fortue Stove would provide a safer, cleaner and healthier household environment by significantly reducing the emissions from cooking fuels as well as reducing the risks associated with cooking on open fires.
  
  “The proposed solution is to provide
a safer, cleaner, healthier household
environment...”

  
  The end users of the fortué™ sustainable stove will be developing communities, globally. The main users will be women or girls who are in charge of running the household and purchasing or gathering fuel for cooking as well as cooking the food itself.
 The fuel technology solution for the fortue stove is methane gas. Methane is one of the cleanest gases, produced human and animals waste. A viable solution for developing communities where families do not have the income which affords fuel for cooking energy. The implementation of a methane digester is relatively simple and inexpensive and requires the specific design of the fortue stove to create enough pressure for cooking.

  Sustainability

  I always aim to design responsibly, this not only means considering sustainability but also the bigger picture of the product from inception to realization. Recently I have had the opportunity of being apart of the Slow Design movement in Australia with A Bit Slow, and have been able to explore other ways of implementing sustainability into my designs, socially, environmentally and economically. In my work I don’t consider sustainability at any one point during the design process, it is in fact an integral part at every stage as much as aesthetics and function.

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