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2005
December 2005
New
photos from Boliva IntiSimple
mechanism designed by Jeff Monaco and Tom Sponheim to turn a cooker
automaticallyNovember 2005
Unlikely
partners develop solar cooker for the poor in VietnamOctober 2005
Added
Portuguese plans: Girassol
Added
page of photos of SCI's Cookers Shop in Kenya
Eternal
Solar by UK artist Mark Hosking
MSNBC:
Inventor looks to sun to save Eritrea’s forests
Plans
for the
Cob Solar Box
Cooker now available in Spanish
A
solar restaurant made of tin cans in LesothoSeptember 2005
The
Sola Kooka, a manufacturer in Perth, Australia added to our
Manufacturers page
Sun
Ovens Int. has just filled a 40' container with ovens and headed for Sri
Lanka for tsunami relief
This
page shows the inner workings of the massive Auroville solar cooker
This
interesting design receives sunlight from above and from belowAugust 2005
July 2005
Plans
added for the Inclined Box Solar Cooker
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In our continuing series of interviews with solar cooking promoters around the world, we recorded an interview today with Dar Curtis and Louise Meyer of Solar Household Energy, Inc. also known as SHE, Inc. Their organization’s mission is to harness free enterprise for the introduction of solar cooking where it can add quality to life and relieve stress on the environment. |
June 2005
There will be a solar cook-off & expo Saturday, June
25, at the Bisbee Farmers Market in Bisbee, Arizona. This is the 3rd annual
summer solstice solar cook-off we’ve had at the farmers market and would
like to invite solar cooks from all over to come down or up to Bisbee which
is located at a cooler 5000 ft. in elevation. The event is from 8 a.m. to
noon in Vista Park in the Warren district of Bisbee. Solar vendors will
also be demonstrating how to partner with the sun to produce electricity and
run appliances, pump and heat water etc. For more information call Valerie
at (520)378-2973 or e-mail:
vallimac@cox.net.
New documents:
The
feasibility of introducing solar ovens to rural women in Maphephethe
Enhancement of Solar Water Pasteurization with Reflectors
Solar Cookers International, Creating Healthy Communities
SolCafé: A Solar Cooking Facility for
Schools and Small Catering Business in Hot Arid Areas
Solar Oven Testing Proposal
An audio interview with Kathy
Dahl-Bredine has been added to the Archive. Kathy and her husband are
Maryknoll Lay Missioners working in Oaxaca, Mexico with local organizations
on sustainable development among indigenous and marginalized rural
communities. Kathy works with the organization “Nino a Nino” (Child to
Child), a group working to empower groups of children living in poverty to
work together with their families on projects to improve their over-all
health and well being. Kathy has been working on alternative energy,
specifically solar cooking projects with the children and their parents for
the past two years.
Blackhawk Solar, KHGQ and KTHX announce that their 15th
annual Solar Cook-Off will be held at the Taylorsville, California
campgrounds on July 9, 2005, beginning at 10 am. Daytime admission is $5,
which includes demonstrations, arts & crafts, solar-cooked food, and music
on two stages. An evening dance, with "queen of the Texas Blues" Angela
Strehli, begins at 8:30 pm. (Dance admission is $25.) Bring your solar
cooker and something to cook! For more information or tickets, call: (530)
283-1396.
Map
now available online showing the percentage of solid fuel use (wood,
charcoal, dung, etc.) throughout the world
For further information write to Monica Salyer |
Link to
1978 Mother Earth News article on the Vita solar cooker (http://www.vita.org/publications/pubcat.htm)
May 2005
The
Watercone changes salt water or brackish water into potable water.
Thanh
Nien News reports:
More
locals in central Vietnam exposed to solar cookers
The
FOST organization is very actively promoting solar cooking in NepalApril 2005
European
NGOs are starting up a solar cooking project in Chad called PapiTchad
Interesting
design from the Prince Group that enhances convenience and safety of a
parabolic cookerMarch 2005
January 2005
Article from The Hindu: Switch on to Solar
Solar Cooker Review -- November 2004 is now online.
Green Micro Finance has linked with Sun
Ovens International for long-term
Asia Tsumani Rebuilding and Relief Efforts. Green
Microfinance is seeking to ship 500 Global
Sun Ovens® to tsunami-stricken area. More
info
here.
Article
from The Hindu: On a street in Bysanivaripalle in Andhra Pradesh. 2004
December 2004
At last...plans are posted on the internet for building wooden ULOG-style solar box cookers. The instructions can be found in English, Spanish and German by going to http://www.med.uni-magdeburg.de/~maercker/SolCook/SolCook.html and scrolling to the bottom of the page. This site is courtesy of Project KiWi in Magdeburg, Germany. Their home page is http://www.med.uni-magdeburg.de/~maercker/kiwi99.html
Solar Cooking to be taught through distance
learning centers in Nigeria:
"The main objective of COL-PROTEIN is to support projects that adopt open
and distance learning and information and communications technologies (ICTs)
to help build rural capacity in food security, environmental protection,
rural development, nutritional education and micro-enterprise.
"One of the schemes selected for support proposes solar cooking lessons via telecentres in Nigeria, submitted by the Fantsuam Foundation. The organisation plans to produce training materials on solar cooking and spread the knowledge using ICTs. It also hopes to do research on materials and methods for sharing information and knowledge via ICTs and distance learning in Africa." ()
November 2004
Nelson Mandela eats
solar-cooked food at Sun-Bakery Initiative dedication ceremonyOctober 2004
September 2004
The HotPot, soon
available for purchaseAugust 2004
Click to watch a newscast about solar cooking in Brazil.June 2004
Interesting
articles on the Solar Bowl in India that can cook two meals a day for 1000
people.
FAQ -
(Hebrew)
Solar
Kettle Thermos Flask now in commercial productionMay 2004
New
document: The Barbara Kerr Solar Wall Oven
Do-It-Yourself GuidelinesApril 2004
Solar Cookers International's new Web site highlights its work, offers e-commerce
Solar
Cookers International (SCI) launched a new, second web site at www.solarcookers.org.
SCI’s original web site, the highly successful Solar Cooking Archive
(the site you are now on), has been serving the solar cooking community
since 1996 and will continue to do so.
The new site provides basic information about solar cooking and detailed information about SCI as an organization, including its mission, programs, people and history. Solar cookers, cookbooks, literature and supplies can be ordered on-line through a secure server, and donations can be made to support SCI’s nonprofit work worldwide.
If you have a web site, please consider linking to our new site if at
all possible. (This helps our "ratings" with search engines,
enabling more people to find out about solar cooking.)
March 2004
Tests
using a photovoltaic cell to compare reflectors and various glazing
materials (pdf)February 2004
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The La
Trame documentary film studio has just released Bon appétit, Monsieur
Soleil, a film about solar cooking in Burkina-Faso. The film covers
the essential points of solar cooking, the acceptance of these devices
by the population, the advantages achieved by using them (savings in
money and/or time), and their contribution to fighting deforestation.
The film is a good tool to inform people living in countries with energy
problems about other ways to cook. It also serves to introduce this
cooking method to decision makers in government agencies and NGOs. After
successful distribution tests in various target languages, the film will
be distributed on this schedule:
For more information, visit www.la-trame.org. |
Photos
of a cooker made from half of a 50-gallon drum
Slideshow now available in
Chinese 
Solar
cooker built from discarded satellite dish (caution, could cause injury!) January 2004
New
plans added:
Parvati
Solar Cooker 
SHE,
Inc. wins World Bank backing for HotPot distribution project 2003
December 2003
November 2003
A
comprehensive Haitian solar cooking program beginsOctober 2003
New
plans: The
Pentagon Star CookerSeptember 2003
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Very interesting work is being done in by J.Samalea in Spain involving vacuum-sealed cooking pots and their use with and without a solar cooker. |
August 2003
Solar
family took power outage in stride
Laila
Petty's journey through AfghanistanJuly 2003
June 2003
Solar
cooking catches fire in Mexican nature reserve
Clever
method for using a large plastic bottle as the glazing in a solar panel
cooker
Sling
design for Solar Household Energy's new HotPot cooking potMay 2003
April 2003
Soda
Bottle PasteurizerMarch 2003
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In the latest broadcast of Calling All Solar Cookers, Dr. Li-Yan Zhu discusses his design for a simple parabolic cooker that allows two hours of unattended cooking. |
Ashok
Kundapur came up with
this
design for a enclosure for a cooking pot.February
The
Parvati Solar Cooker -- A Dual-Angled Funnel Cooker
Inverting
the Solar Box CookerJanuary 2003
2002
December 2002
The
Prometheus Cooker.November 2002
Info
available on the
Scheffler steam cooking system at Mount Abu.
Calling All Solar Cookers
archived broadcast section added to the site.
Also, visit Solar Oven Society
website here.October 2002
September 2002
August 2002
July 2002
June 2002
Building a Hay Sack CookerMay 2002
Listen
to an interview with Jim Scott talking about his solar wall oven
here. You can see photos
here.
New
document:
The Solar Pot SkirtApril 2002
-- New
human-translated
Solar Cooking FAQ in
Chinese addedMarch 2002
You can also
listen to
an interview with Margaret
Owino on the BBC program
Network Africa.
Interesting
combination focusing/accumulating cooker found
here.February 2002
January 2002
2001
December 2001
Rotary
Clubs, Districts and individual Rotarians from throughout North America have
come together to assist in combating the growing humanitarian crisis at the
borders of Afghanistan. VILLAGER SUN OVENS are being sent to help in
the feeding of refugees. Using the sun to cook food will allow the space on
planes and trucks that was used to transport cooking fuel to be used to send
more food and thereby enable the feeding of more people.
These ovens are extremely well insulated to hold heat in and keep cold out. Even though the winters are very cold in this area of the world, there is still an abundance of sunshine, which is conducive to solar cooking. The ovens will be used in northern Afghanistan at the IDP camp at Dasht-i-Qala. This area is not under the control of the Taliban. As of October 25th there were 61,000 families living in this camp and cooking fuel is very scarce. This is the first war that has ever been fought with food being equal to bombs in their power to overthrow the enemy. Each oven can cook over 1,200 meals per day powered by the sun. Your donations are needed to help with this project. More information here.
November 2001
New Audio:
An
interview with Barbara Knudson discussing Mr. Paksoy's exciting
project in
Adana, Turkey.
Bolivian
newspaper calls solar ovens "commonplace".October 2001
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To achieve frying temperatures in a single reflector cooker elevate a shallow, dark pan (without a lid) so that it touches the glass inside. Then attach a small three-panel reflector that concentrates extra light onto this pan. Other food can be baked at the same time in the rest of the oven. |
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Section added: Contenido en español (Content in Spanish)
Solar Cooking (South African site)
New Link: FAST-Solar -- Friendly Appropriate Solar Technologies
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Addressing household energy needs also has far-reaching benefits for governments. These were well summed up by a rural Zimbabwean visitor to the solar cooking exhibit: "Today young women don't want to live in rural areas because they must work so hard, going long distanced to search for scarce fuelwood and having to carry it back long distances. Solar cookers could lighten their work so that they would want to stay in the rural areas."
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