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Fancy building a parabolic solar cooker which can cook food and boil water in less than 30 minutes.
On special offer is a range of parabolic paper templates which have been designed and printed using specialist CAD software, accurate to 0.01mm and printed on high gloss 80gsm paper.
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A collage of some of my favourite solar cookers.
1 – Parabolic Solar Cooker Array
2 – Parabolic Cardboard Dish
3 – Parabolic Solar Cooker
4 – BCK
5 – HotPot
Each week a new batch of solar cooker pictures will be posted including a review of each solar cooker. Read more…
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As part of the how to build a solar cooker series, here are some easy to follow instructions showing you how to build a pizza box solar cooker. These instructions were used for a children’s solar club in Birmingham, UK last year.
FREE download of instructions for building a pizza box solar cooker and Cone solar cooker when you subscribe. (Please drop me an email requesting building plans).
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A bamboo solar cooker which only costs $1 to make. Here is proof that solar cooking needn’t be an expensive affair. One of my readers Krishna – rkrao, kindly sent in the above picture showing the simplicity and beauty of a bamboo solar cooker. Here are Krishna’s notes for building such a simple and effective solar cooker.
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What is the perfect solar cooker? How should it function and perform? And most importantly should it be cost effective and comparable to the more conventional cooking methods thus offering an alternative to our current reliance of fuel sources?
Solar ovens aka solar cookers fall into 3 distinct categories; the box solar cooker design, trough design and the parabolic cooker design. Each design offers its own features, benefits and drawbacks: -
For more information on the different types of solar oven, please visit types of Solar Cooker
Taking these factors into account, one must balance up the pros and cons of what the needs are for the end user. The predominant market for solar cookers includes developing countries, Tibet (lack of fire wood), China and India.
The Western world is now starting to harness solar cooking with the advent of peak oil prices starting to affect us all. Read more…
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I recently read an interesting article on the pros and cons of using solar power. Why is it, that whenever the term ’solar power’ is used, companies such as the BBC discuss technologies which only use solar panels, photovoltaic cells, or solar thermal collectors.
Other applications of solar power include heliostats, solar chimneys, Stirling engines, and of course solar cooking. Read more…
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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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