- Each year almost 2 billion tonnes of wood is consumed worldwide for cooking.
- 50,000 people die every day from water-born diseases such as Cholera. The World Health Organisation 80% of all illnesses are spread through contaminated water.
- Solar cookers save the labour of collecting sticks and branches for firewood. There is also a danger to women collecting firewood due to injuries from snake bites, critters and the high risk of being personally attacked.
- Solar cookers save families money. Reduces the need to purchase firewood, charcoal, and kerosene. If a solar cooker is used regularly then it can help reduce cooking fuel costs by about 30-40%. This money can be used to fund education for children, as well as provide basic provisions and a better quality of life.
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There are many different types of Solar cookers, however they all follow three basic designs: -
Box Solar Cooker:
Box cookers are the most common type made for personal use. There are over several hundred thousand in India alone.
Despite the name “box” cooker, they are made in both circular and rectangular shapes. They consist of an enclosed inner box covered with clear glass or plastic, a reflector, and insulation. There is a wide variety of patterns and plans for the box cooker. While they do not heat quickly, they do provide slow, even cooking and are extremely cheap to make. Box cookers are very easy and safe to use, and fairly easy to construct. Box cooker Building Plans Read more…
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Solar Cooking is fun
Why spend time cooking inside when it’s sunny outside? Preparing food 
outside in your backyard or in nature is fun and relaxing. Preparing food with renewable solar energy is doubly so, as you get the satisfaction of doing no harm to the environment while you cook healthy food with free solar energy. Why not organize a solar club in your area, the children absolutely loved building the solar oven on the left. Any excuse to get mucky I guess. 
Climate Change
Every time you cook food using electricity, natural gas, propane or wood, you release polluting greenhouse gasses into atmosphere.
The scientific consensus is that global warming is happening, and that climate disruption is directly linked to atmospheric CO2 from fossil fuel and biomass burning. Solar cooking emits zero CO2 or other greenhouse gasses. Solar cooking is the sustainable way to cook. Read more…
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Here is a simple solar oven design which anyone can build, why not build one with a friend, child or as part of a school project. Then organize a ‘cook off’ to see who’s the fastest cook in the West. Make it a fun and educational experience for children by involving them and helping them understand alternative energy and the implications and rewards of harnessing technologies like solar cooking.
A solar cooker can be made with the most basic materials and of course the most important ingredient for your cooker – the sun. You will be amazed at how simple, fun and rewarding it is to cook food using only the power of the sun and a couple of hours of your time. Read more…
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Click on the following links if you would like more information regarding solar cooking.
www.solarcooking.org
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I don’t think much needs to said about this exciting concept phone – the Nokia 888. Suffice to say it gives us a glimpse into tomorrow’s mobile phone technology. Who knows, perhaps three years from now we shall all be walking around with our mobile phones implanted into skulls, and we won’t require such peripherals.
The borg generation beckons.
Check out another concept phone from Nokia, the Nokia Morph.
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Here is something I’ve been keeping a close eye on over the past couple of years. It is the Nokia Morph concept phone which looks similar to their other concept phone, the Nokia 888. These phones give us a rare glimpse into how tomorrow’s mobile phone will look and interact with us mere mortals.
Somewhat different to the sleek iPhone, which I feel is the last bastion to the ‘conventional’ mobile phone ‘brick’ design, the Nokia Morph finally bridges the gap between the application of highly advanced technologies and human interaction.
The Nokia Morph uses the latest nanotechnology and electro-luminescent materials, it allows the user to twist and shape the phone into almost any shape. Minority Report perhaps, but this concept phone does give us a privileged glimpse into what is in store for us – the consumer, and how we will interact with tomorrow’s technology.
If you would like to read more about the Nokia Morph then please visit the Nokia website.
Please note that this phone is a concept phone, it is not for sale… yet. So don’t bother asking where you can purchase one. Give it 3-5 years I reckon. 
Having personally worked with electro luminescence (EL), I know from experience that the size of the drivers which power the segmented EL are rather large to say the least, however with the help of Cambridge University, UK I’m sure Nokia will deliver a gadget of this caliber. Let us hope it is sooner rather than later.
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Here you will find information about free energy (FE), what it means, and the various devices which claim to use ‘free energy’. Debate is encouraged on the subject, including the viability of free energy, types of free energy devices, why such technologies haven’t hit the mainstream – yet, and the oppressive techniques adopted by certain politicians and Governments of the World to hide this information from the masses.
Other major forces keeping FE devices off the market include; bigotry and the human need to gather together in groups to ridicule those who do something new and different.
Please feel free to click on one of the following links to read more about the subject.
What is free energy?
Different types of free energy.
Free energy devices.
Free energy building plans.
Did you know…
Free energy links.
Free energy links.
Quote: Most aspire to be normal, whilst others aspire to be different.
Peace, light and love
SolReka
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What is free energy? Most people immediately think of the overused and misconceived phrase – ‘the perpetual
motion machine’ and some mad professor ‘locked’ away in his basement building some doomsday device. However, although a true perpetual machine may be impossible, a machine which taps into an unknown energy source is not.
A preferred definition for the term ‘free energy’ would be defined as:-
Energy collected from a source which has not yet been recognized by contemporary science.
In order to understand this more, the definition requires some more explanation. Read more…
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