Solar Cooker Can Cook Even Your Dinner
April 15, 2008 by Noel
Filed under Green Living
One of the problems with solar cookers is that have not been given the capacity to cook your dinner. Sometimes, one would need the hottest rays of the sun to be able to cook something well. However, this seems to have been given a solution already by two professors from India. According to the professors, they have added some features to the existing solar cooker and their improved version comes in three designs: concentrating, panel, and box.
According to the professors, with their tests and studies, they have found out that solar cookers worked better when they added three mirrors which convert the sun’s light into heat. The tilt of the mirrors were also changed so much so that more amount of light enters the solar cooker. This new solar cooker has been also designed well so much so that you can still cook your dinner as long as there is still some sun out.
Wanna try this one out?
[Via Business Standard]
Great article,
In order for solar cookers to have the capacity to cook your dinner, the simple answer is a parabolic style design solar cooker. Even a dish of 1.5metres diameter has the ability to melt metal.
Here is a guide to building your own parabolic solar cooker
http://solreka.com/blog/solar-cooking/how-to-build-parabolic-solar-cooker/
Regards
SolReka
Brighter Energy Solutions
I have seen your interesting note on solar oven;it must be very efficient;but how much does it cost?; there are a number of interesting models like yours;their main disadvantage for use by the poor in countries like India and Africa is their cost; I designed a solar cooker with a semi- paraboloid shaped bamboo basket[available locally in most Indian rural and forest villages] for Rs.40[80 cents]; for the reflecting surface I used locally available ‘eating plates’-these are paper plates of 15′ diameter coated with a thin foil of Aluminum or a silver colored polythene film-;each cost Rs.1.25[2 cents!] ;five or six of them will be adequate;in all the cost does not exceed one dollar;it cooked rice in two hours;the cooking time can be brought down by fine tuning;the rice was put in a Aluminum vessel enclosed in a black polythene bag or in a glass vessel;the glass vessel was quicker in cooking. i wil send some photos from picasa 2.
RKRAO