Touted as one of the most advanced cookstove labs in the world, the EECL has developed a small portable wood stove that will burn half the wood fuel and reduce wood smoke pollution by 80 percent over more rudimentary stoves common in Third World countries, said Bryan Willson, Colorado State University Clean Energy Supercluster director and co-founder of the nonprofit CSU spinoff Envirofit Inter-national.

Envirofit markets the small wood stoves to India and other developing nations, and Willson said the technology would be ideal for Honduras, where about 70 percent of the wood contributing to deforestation is used for cooking, he said.

Smoke and carbon monoxide exposure kill about 2 million people each year across the globe, he said.

“It’s a solvable problem,” he told Lobo.

Willson and Envirofit officials presented a cookstove to Lobo, as he spent about an hour touring the lab with four officials from the U.S. Department of State and an entourage of about 15 Honduran officials.

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