（摘要；这已经不是什么秘密，浓烟明火和室内燃煤炉灶是在发展中世界的一个沉默杀手，引发产生气候变化。根据世界卫生报告，每年超过4000000人，死于火炉烧木头的释放的一氧化碳和颗粒物。）

   It's no secret that the smoke spewing from open fires and from indoor coal-fired cook stoves is a silent killer in the developing world and a contributor to climate change. More than 4 million people die each year from health problems related to inhaling carbon monoxide or particulate matter released from stoves that burn wood, biomass or coal, according to the World Health Organization.
    这已经不是什么秘密，浓烟明火和室内燃煤炉灶是在发展中世界的一个沉默杀手，引发产生气候变化。根据世界卫生报告，每年超过4000000人，死于火炉烧木头的释放的一氧化碳和颗粒物。

    And despite a long-running government campaign to eradicate dirty fuels from households, the problem persists in China. But thanks to two young entrepreneurs, a new kind of cook stove — one that can cleanly combust small amounts of plastic trash and convert its excess cooking heat to electricity — could be on its way into kitchens across China in the future.
    在中国，尽管政府长期努力根除家庭不清洁能源，问题仍然存在。但由于两位年轻的企业家的努力，一个可以清洁燃烧，只产生少量的塑料垃圾的新炉灶，将在未来走入中国农村家庭的厨房。

    Smoke-related illnesses are a bigger issue than malaria or HIV

    吸烟引起的疾病是比疟疾或艾滋病病毒更大的问题

    Smoke-related illnesses are a bigger issue than malaria or HIV," said Jacqueline Nguyen, one of the entrepreneurs and a University of California, Berkeley, senior toxicology student. "It kills more than HIV and malaria worldwide per year."
    “吸烟引起的疾病是一种比疟疾或艾滋病更大的问题”；Jacqueline Nguyen如是说，他来自加利福尼亚大学，伯克利，高级毒理学的学生，同时也是企业家，“它每年杀死的人超过艾滋病和疟疾带来的数量”

     While Nguyen handles business and marketing for Energant, the company behind the device, her best friend, Mark Webb — a 2011 Berkeley graduate who studied biochemistry — designed the K2 cook stove.
     而阮处理商业和市场营销，属于公司的幕后，她最好的朋友，马克韦伯-伯克利，2011的毕业生，共同研究生物化学设计的K2的炉子。

     The K2 reduces smoky emissions by 95%, according to tests Webb conducted. Using the excess heat created during operations, it can generate enough electricity to trickle charge a mobile phone. It has the ability to burn biomass briquettes cleanly as well.
     K2减少黑烟排放量的95%，根据韦伯的测试。使用过程中还可以产生的多余热量，它可以产生足够的电能给手机充电细流。它将燃烧生物质成型燃料的清洁能力。

    And it can also burn plastic and wood without toxic emissions as long as the material — which emits volatile organic compounds when burned — doesn't exceed 8% of the mass being used as fuel, according to Webb.
     根据韦伯的消息，它可以将没有有毒物质的燃烧塑料和木材中不超过8%的质量用作燃料，只要材料发出的挥发性有机化合物燃烧时。

     The ability to burn plastic and wood cleanly is what distinguishes the K2 model from the KleanCook stove, the first product Webb designed last year.
     烧塑料和木材的能力干净的区别K2模型从kleancook炉，第一个产品韦伯去年设计。

     K2 stove
     K2炉

     A prototype of the K2 stove, which is not yet available on the market.
     一个的K2炉原型，这是尚未在市场上。

    Webb got the idea for the K2 cook stove during pilot testing of the KleanCook model in the Philippines this past summer when he and Nguyen noticed people cooking food over open fires all across the country — and burning plastic bags as a way to get those fires started.

    韦伯知道K2的炉子的kleancook模型试验在菲律宾今年夏天，当他与阮注意烹饪明火全国和燃烧的塑料袋作为一种方法来获得这些大火。

    We decided to make the K2, which was centered specifically around being able to burn off all of the toxic material from this trash," Webb said.
    我们决定K2，这是中心特别是能够消耗掉所有的有毒物质从垃圾，”韦伯说。

    But because the two wanted the cook stoves to generate income for local people who would sell the devices for profit, they decided to target the Chinese market, as business costs in the Philippines were too high.
    但由于两个想要炉灶产生的当地人出售设备的收入，他们决定针对中国市场，而在菲律宾商务成本太高。

    How does it work, and what differentiates it from other clean cook stoves?
    它是如何工作的，以及什么区别于其他清洁炉灶？

    The unique geometric design of the stove's built-in fan, which resembles a turbo fan from a jet engine. When the fan blows air into the fire, it creates forced convection, which makes the stove more fuel-efficient. Carbon monoxide is then converted to carbon dioxide.
    该炉内置的风扇的独特的几何设计，它更像一个涡轮风扇喷气发动机。当风扇将空气吹入火，它创造了强制对流，造成了一个更多的节能高效的炉。一氧化碳接着被转换为二氧化碳。

    The stove's greater efficiency means that
    炉子上的更高的效率意味着：

    50% fewer fuel has to be burned to create the same amount of heat, resulting in lower emissions
    减少50%的燃料必须燃烧产生同样数量的热量，从而降低排放。

    50% fewer fuel has to be burned to create the same amount of heat, resulting in lower emissions, according to Webb. A patent is pending on the K2's design.
    减少50%的燃料必须燃烧产生同样数量的热量，从而降低排放量，对于韦伯来说。这是一个正在申请专利的K2的设计。

    The stove also contains a thermoelectric generator. When one side of the device is exposed to heat and the other is kept cool, an electric current is generated as the heat travels from one side of the generator to the other. That electric charge is then fed into a voltage regulator to produce a steady current.
    炉子上还包含一个热电发生器。当该装置的一个侧面暴露在外面进行热交换，电流产生的热量从发电机的一边到另一边。电荷被送入一个电压调节器产生一个稳定的电流。

    Since it's made from cheap metal, the stove costs only $16 to manufacture. Energant plans to sell the stoves to regional distributors for between $20 and $25. In turn, the salespeople will sell the units at retail for $50 — a price that Webb and Nguyen says the Chinese government has deemed an acceptable amount to charge based on disposable income.
    因为它是由廉价的金属制成，该炉的成本只有16美元。energant计划出售费用在20美元到25美元。而，、销售人员将零售价为50美元价格，韦伯和阮说这是中国政府视为基于可支配收入费用可接受量出售的价格。

   The debut of the K2 cook stove could be timely, as recent reports from China indicate there's been an increase in burning trash and plastic, which releases carcinogenic dioxins.
    K2炉灶亮相相当及时，来自中国的最新报告显示，在燃烧的垃圾和塑料的时候，释放致癌的二恶英呈现增长趋势。

    Webb and Nguyen's clean cook stove venture attracted support from UC Berkeley's Development Impact Lab after the pair won the Lab's Big Ideas student innovation contest for the KleanCook stove.
    韦伯和阮的清洁炉灶企业吸引了来自UC伯克利的发展影响实验室，他们赢得了支持。