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2010.02.01 DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Breathing Easier: The Art of Stove Making 发展报道——轻松呼吸：炉灶制造工艺 More than three billion people are at risk from indoor air pollution because of the heating or cooking fuels they use. Most live in Africa, India and China. They use biomass fuels like wood, crop waste, animal waste or coal. These solid fuels may be the least costly fuels available. But they are also a major cause of health problems and death. 由于使用燃料供暖或烹饪，导致30 多亿人处于室内空气污染的危险之中。大多数受害者生活在非洲、印度和中国。他们使用诸如木柴、农作物废料、动物排泄物之类的生物燃料或煤炭。这些固体燃料是可用燃料中最为廉价的。但是它们也是引起健康问题和死亡的主要原因。 For more than thirty years, the Aprovecho Research Center has been designing cleaner,low-cost cooking stoves for the developing world. Dean Still is the director of the group which is based in the United States. He notes a World Health Organization estimate that more than one and a half million people a year die from breathing smoke from solid fuels. 30 多年来，Aprovecho 研究中心一直致力于为发展中国家设计更清洁、更廉价的厨灶。该机构总部设在美国，Dean Still 是其负责人。他指出，据世界卫生组织估计，（全球）每年有150 多万人死于吸入固体燃料的烟尘。 DEAN STILL: And half of the people on planet Earth every day use wood or biomass for cooking. These are the people on Earth who have less money, and the richer people use oil and gas. Its been estimated that wood is running out more quickly than oil and gas. And so it is very important for the poorer people to have very efficient stoves that protect their forests and that protect their health. DEAN STILL：“地球上每天都有一半人用木柴或生物燃料烹饪食物。这些人是地球上的穷人，而富人则使用石油和天然气。据估计，木柴耗尽的速度比石油和天然气快得多。因此，让穷人拥有能够保护森林及其健康的高效能炉灶尤为重要。” Every year Aprovecho holds a stove camp at its testing station in Cottage Grove, Oregon.Engineers, inventors, students and others come together to design and test different methods and materials for improving stoves. 每年，Aprovecho 都会在位于俄勒冈州卡蒂奇格罗夫的测试站举办一次“炉营”。工程师、发明者、学生以及其他人聚到一起来设计和检验不同的方法和材料以提高炉灶的效能。 Over the years, the group has made stoves using mud, bricks, sheet metal, clay, ceramics and old oil drums. Most of the stoves look like large, deep cooking pots.