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• Kenya news: Kenya inventor wins American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) award for solar cooker boiler
• Water pasteurization document: Safe Drinking Water For the World - Roger Haines
• Construction plans: Build a very large version of the Copenhagen Solar Cooker
• Australia Facebook group: Cooloola Solar Systems
• France/Bolivia Facebook group: Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil
• Argentina Facebook groups: Cocinando con el Sol - Fundación EcoAndina - O'paybo
• Mexico news: Health Food: Oaxacans Turn to Traditional Healing in a Time of Crisis - Culinary Backstreets
• (EVENT) 15-19 June 2020 (Manila, Philippines): - Asia Clean Energy Forum
• Dominican Republic Facebook group: El Fuego Del Sol
• USA Facebook group: World Central Kitchen
• Research paper: Analysis of the Thermal Behavior of a Tunnel-Type Dryer with Hybridization of Solar Technologies - Margarita Castillo Téllez, Beatríz Castillo Téllez, Luz María Hernández Cruz, José Andrés Alanís Navarro
• (EVENT) 30 May 2020 (9:30 GMT): 4th Webinar CONSOLFOOD, Spreading the solar cooking "virus"
• Vendor news: Dr. Solstice
• Algeria Facebook group: Centre de Développement des Energies Renouvelables (CDER)
• Afghanistan Facebook groups: German Aid for Afghan Children - Global Hope Network International - The Lady Fatemah Trust
• Germany Facebook group: EG-Solar
• Yemen news: Displaced women in Yemen become solar entrepreneurs - themedialine
• Italy video: Conoscete la cottura solare? In questo video spiego come funziona, con esempi di forni, fornelli e barbecue solari - Andrea Mameli
• Manufacturer news: GoSun provides 1500 solar ovens to the Red Cross for Super Typhoon Yutu relief
• Research paper: Field Trial to Determine the Capacity of a Single Person to Manually Maintain Multiple Focussed Beams on a Single Target - Andrew Wilson, BAppSc
• Research paper: A Field Trial — Using a Heat Trap, Insulation, and Heat Sinks With a 1.5m Parabolic Solar Concentrator to Attempt the Pizza Oven Challenge at Latitude 32S - Andrew Wilson, BAppSc
• Research paper: Natural Criterion for Defining the 3D Focus of a Parabolic Solar Cooker Composed of Flat Lamellae - Dr. Ilko Petrov
• Design: SunStore Cooker – A Battery Type Solar Cooker Charged by an Automated Sun Tracking System (Slides) - Akiko Ishibashi, Jonn Reim, Jakob Jensen
• Research paper: High Temperature Solar Cooking System With a PCM Energy Storage Unit - Olivia Alves, V. A. F. Costa
• Research paper: Experimental Evaluation of the Tolokatsin V Solar Oven - Eduardo A. Rincón Mejía, Marco Aurelio Díaz Leal González, Eduardo Vázquez Valdez, Eduardo González Mora
• Research paper: Lessons Learned from Applied Solar Cooking In Community, Tamera, Portugal - Franziska Klapper, Hannah Larndorfer, Katrin Münch
• Design: Solar Household Energy Bank - Building the Device | Solar Household Energy Bank - Disinfecting Clothing and Bedding | Solar Household Energy Bank - Grain Drying | Solar Household Energy Bank - Preheating Water
• Update: Solar Z through-the wall solar cooker
• Research paper: Overcoming Hurdles to Solar Cooking - Sara Hjalmarsson, Stefan Karnebäck
• Project evaluation: Evaluation for Jewish World Watch Tchad Solaire Solar Cooker Project Touloum and Iridimi Refugee Camps - Patricia McArdle
• Research paper: Solar Cooker in Urban Environment as a Complement to Liquified Petroleum Gas Cooking - Case Study in Las Tunas Neighborhood, Buenos Aires - Manuel F. Semedo, Lucio Capalbo, Pamela Scanio
• Research paper: Hybrid Solar Oven - Limited or Limitless - David Chalker
• Research paper: The Challenges of Everyday Solar Cooking in Communities - A. Fernándes Torres, C. Karystinos
• Research paper: Solar Cookers to Complement Traditional Restaurants - Pedro Serrano
• Article in the media: Well-Tended Fires Outperform Modern Cooking Stoves - Low-Tech Magazine
• Construction plans: Kimono Solar Cooker
• Research paper: Design, Realization and Test of a Portable Solar Box Cooker with Booster Mirrors - Giovanni Di Nicola, Gianluca Coccia, Sebastiano Tomassetti, and Mariano Pierantozzi
• Research paper: Experimental characterization of a solar cooker with thermal energy storage based on solar salt - G Coccia, G Di Nicola, S Tomassetti, G Gabrielli, M Chieruzzi and M Pierantozzi
• Pakistan Facebook group: Sunny Solutions
• Project evaluation: Adopción tecnológica sustentable de cocinas solares en comunidades indígenas y rurales de Michoacán - M. González-Avilés
• Research paper: Exergy applied to the heat conduction analysis in glass covers of a solar cooker box-type with internal and external reflectors - Terres H, et al
• Research paper: The 250-year saga of solar box cookers - Ashok Kundapur
• Research paper: Thermal and optical analysis of selective absorber coatings based on soot for applications in solar cookers - H. Servín, et al

• Research paper: A temperature threshold evaluation for thermocline energy storage in concentrated solar power plants - T. Fasquelle, Q. Falcoz, P. Neveu, and J.-F. Hoffmann
• Research paper: Analysis strategy for multi-criteria optimization: Application to inter-seasonal solar heat storage for residential building needs - S. Launay, B. Kadoch, O. Le Métayer, C. Parrado
• Research paper: Experimental investigation of 16 square meter Scheffler concentrator system and its performance assessments for various regions of India - S. Kumar, V. Yadav, U. Sahoo, and S.K. Singh
• Research paper: State of the art of solar cooking: An overview - N.L. Panwar, S.C. Kaushik, and Surendra Kothari
• Research paper: A review on energy and exergy analysis of solar drying systems - N.L. Panwar, S.C. Kaushik, and Surendra Kothari
• Wiki article: Solar crematorium
• Mali news: Mali Removes VAT and Import Duties for Solar - pv magazine
• Resource: Impact of COVID-19 on Energy Access - Energypedia
• Research paper: Experimental determination of the thermal performance of a solar box cooker with a modified cooking pot - Atul Sagade
• USA news: Sun Power - Evolving practices help bring solar cooking to the world stage - Comstock's Magazine
• Resources: SCI offers downloadable resources for international, national, and community solar cooking impact all from one location
• Video: Insulated Solar-Electric Cooking Technology and Uganda - Cal Poly Solar Cooking
• Research paper: Insulated Solar Electric Cooking – Tomorrow's healthy affordable stoves? - T. Watkins, et al
• Video: Solar electric cooking in Ghana with phase-change thermal storage - Cal Poly Solar Cooking
• Solar dryer model: Multipurpose Solar Dryer
• Book: Solar Cookers: Cooking with the sun, history, theory, construction, and recipes - Nicola Ulivieri
• India news: Weeklong online lectures from 15 April in memory of great solar techie James McGilligan
• Newsletter: Solar Cookers International published its Spring 2020 newsletter
• Afghanistan report: The Potential Impacts of Solar Cooking in Afghanistan
• USA news: Solar Cooking Startup GoSun Adds Water Filtration To The Product Lineup - THE SPOON
• Video: Cooking on a balcony with the Sundish solar cooker during the lockdown in India
• Sierra Leone vendor: Easy Solar
• France news: Pierre-Andre Aubert is in the process of setting up a solar restaurant in Marseilles
• Event changes: A number of events have been canceled, rescheduled, or offered online due to COVID-19
• Dominican Republic news: Grandmother offers unique opportunity to grandchildren - Daily Leader Extra
• Italy WhatsApp group: Cuochi Solari Italiani
• Kenya video: Video of Solar Cookers International's project to deliver solar cookers to 300 people in the Kakuma Refugee Camp

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