Safe, Clean & Affordable
Introducing the “Clean Cooking” Ethanol or Methanol powered LakiStar Stove.
Ongoing safety issues surrounding the use of Paraffin stoves prompted the late industrial designer Ken Hall in association with Nu-Way Clean Energy, to investigate alternative fuels and stove designs, aimed primarily at improving the safety and quality of life of households using dangerous and dirty fuels such as coal, wood and Paraffin. This association resulted in the development of a new generation Ethanol or Methanol burning stove.
In South Africa alone there are approximately 6.5 million Paraffin stoves in daily usage. This new innovative combination stove offers safe clean burning cooking, resulting in drastically improving the quality of life as well as the safety of both households and communities.
The late Ken Hall is, to date, the only industrial designer in South Africa to have designed working Ethanol or Methanol fuelled cooking stoves. Over the last two decades Ken Hall has designed award winning products for Safire, Cobb, Protostar, HGF Flame Technologies and currently the latest generation clean burning stove for Nu-Way Clean Energy , the LakiStar “Clean Cooking” Stove.
Nu-Way Clean Energy aims to create direct marketing channels for the distribution of stoves, and by doing so generate many new and sustainable jobs in South Africa. To achieve this vision of maximum local employment the company seeks to localise production of it’s products thereby increasing job creation opportunities.
The LakiStar “Clean Cooking” Stove is only to be used with Ethanol or Methanol Fuel
OUR VISION is to develop new and efficient clean burning stoves thus improving the quality of life of people who currently rely on the usage of dirty burning fuels to cook with.
OUR MISSION is to convert households that cook using dirty burning fuel such as coal, wood and Paraffin, to clean burning stoves utilising Ethanol or Methanol fuel that is a safer and healthier choice.
Health and Safety
The greatest social impact in the usage of LakiStar Ethanol or Methanol Stoves, lies in the reduction of fire related injuries and deaths, as well as reducing organic compound pollution related to health problems primarily amongst young children thus improving the quality of life for households and communities.
The increased efficiency of the newly developed Ethanol or Methanol stove will translate into an effective cost saving.
Paraffin under production emits 40% more CO₂ emissions than Ethanol or Methanol. For every litre of Ethanol or Methanol blend fuel produced instead of Paraffin, about 1,4kg less CO₂ is emitted into the atmosphere. Assuming an average monthly usage of 15 litres per stove, this translates into 250kg less CO₂ emissions per stove per annum, or 250 tonnes per 1,000 stoves per annum.
The new generation LakiStar “Clean Cooking” Stove
The design of the LakiStar “Clean Cooking” Stove is driven strongly towards user safety, cost effectiveness, efficiency and ease of use. Low income households are sensitised on an ongoing basis to the drawbacks of cooking with dangerous and dirty fuels such as coal, wood and Paraffin. This “new generation” LakiStar “Clean Cooking” Stove has been engineered to avoid the safety and health disadvantages associated with the usage of dangerous and dirty fuels.
Air Pollution
Strategy to address air pollution in dense low income settlements.
Air pollution in dense low income settlements poses a threat to human health as well as to the environment and it poses numerous challenges with effective solutions almost impossible to achieve when the problem is addressed in isolation.
In most interventions to date the objective of significantly improving ambient air quality indoors has failed. The introduction of the LakiStar “Clean Cooking Stove” is a significant attempt in improving the ambient air quality in dense low-income settlements and in compliance with National Ambient Air Quality standards and United Nations 2016, Paris Agreement, thereby ensuring the right to cleaner air that is not harmful to people’s health and well-being.
A serious challenge remains in the controlling of indoor pollution as well as addressing household fuel-related accidents. In most interventions to date the objective of significantly improving ambient air quality indoors has failed.
The aim of this “strategy” is to map a way to ensure that ambient air quality in dense low-income settlements is in compliance with National Ambient Air Quality standards and United Nations 2016, Paris Agreement, thereby ensuring the right to clean air that is not harmful to people’s health and well-being.
Because every breath matters.
Ready to make a change?
Say yes to the Lakistar “Clean Cooking” Stove which is a cleaner and healthier choice for your family.