COOKING WITHOUT GAS - RUNNER-UP
NEPAL

In 1995, Sanu Kaji Shrestha ran out of cooking gas. So too did nearly everyone else in Kathmandu, as a countrywide shortage set in. Demand was so great Sanu had to take three days off work to queue up for more fuel.

This first-hand experience of his country's dependence on external energy supplies set Sanu thinking. He began to look into sustainable energy technologies for the domestic market, researching existing designs and adapting them for the Nepalese market.

In 2001 he retired from his day job to concentrate on bringing low-cost, high-efficiency energy technologies to Nepal's rural and urban poor. Measures developed to date include simple yet ingenious solar cookers and briquette presses to make smokeless fuel from waste materials.

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