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I just thought this was neat. I made one in about 10 minutes using a different design. I made mine about the size of a skoal can and it will burn for about 40 min. Boils 2 cups of water in about 5 min. I dont think the RTV is necessary if you get a good interference fit.Make a penny can stove

t happens all the time. Someone cooking on the stove or outdoor grill walks away to do something else, or falls asleep, or forgets about the food. And a fire starts. Cooking was the leading cause of residential fires in Virginia in 2008, according to a new state report that examines fires and responses to them. Cooking, which includes outdoor grilling, accounted for 31 percent of all residential structure fires, up from 28 percent in 2007, according to the 2009 annual report from the Virginia Department of Fire Programs. Heating-related fires were the next-most-common cause, at 16 percent. "Cooking is...

arty Farnum can't keep pellet stoves in his Northern Lights Hearth Sports store on Wilton Road in Farmington. Nor can Mack Curtis, who owns Wayne's Stove & Canoe Shop in Madison. Ditto for The Stove Barn on China Road in Winslow, owned by Wade Bullard. Heating-oil prices that could flirt with $5 a gallon this winter have more people ready to switch away from oil. For an investment of roughly $3,000 plus the cost of pellets, a pellet stove might pay for itself in a year or two, shop owners say. Mainers appear to be believers, and they're scooping up...

When Kurt Hoffman visited Tanzania in the 1970s as a young product-development researcher, he could hardly bear to enter village huts to ask questions. “I couldn’t stand the smoke, the pain in my eyes and the coughing,” he said. “And yet the women and children were sitting there the whole time,” enveloped in smoke from traditional open pit fires or poorly functioning stoves. Some 30 years later, when Mr. Hoffman returned to the field in his position as director of the Shell Foundation, a charity in Britain established by the Shell Group, not much had changed. “To find that it...