My younger cousin came to me yesterday with his science project, the aim of the project is for him to collect, analyse and interpret data from anything, He needs to do an experiment that investigates anything he wants to as long as he is able to show by means of the data what is happening.
So I let him read the Zen Stove site, watch a few youtube movies, browse through the board to get an idea of what stovies do. we then decided to test two stoves, His choice was Zelph's Cobalt, (which we can't make) I suggested the Cat Stove, showed him a few videos and he is sold on that, for the second stove we are going to use JSB's SIDE B.
The Testing parameters will be: Burn time, Boil time, efficiency testing, as well as a deployment test, (testing for fiddle factors).
There is enough information available for him to write a thesis, but he won't. We did however consider collecting cans making the stoves and selling them with the proceeds going to their schools charity fund.
Any suggestions are welcome, because its amazing that a 14 year old, could grasp and apply the concepts of laminar and turbulent flow, energy density, thermal mass, energy potential, and he even did the calculations for the power ratings, I think we have a new stovie in our midst.


