What if you could bake your favorite bread, cook up an awesome stir fry with rice, and make some apple-cobbler to die for without using any electricity, and without having to cook over a fire? That opportunity may be here, with the recent invention of a solar cooking device. An inventor in Hawaii has designed a solar stove/oven that could offer a solution to some global problems.
The design of his solar oven/stove looks almost like a children’s slide. The cooking area is on a stand at one end, and the “slide” part is a metal half-pipe with a tube of vegetable oil at the center. This tube of oil is cool to the touch on the outside, but inside heats up to 400 degrees F on a sunny day, and 300 degrees on a cloudy day. The stove/oven can bake bread, cook any sort of stovetop dish, and can sterilize water.
Another great thing about this cooker is that it is cheap to make. None of the materials are expensive, and they are all easy-to-find. It is also light and portable. The only source of power for the cooker is the sun – a truly renewable resource.
The inventor of this contraption hopes countries like China can use it to solve some of the third world’s problems such as lack of clean water and renewable energy.
Check out a video about this solar cooker at cnn.com:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/05/06/allgire.hi.sun.cook...
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