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Solar cooking around the world
Top News
January 2022
| Delicias de Oaxaca in Mexico is drying fruits and vegetables for sale which might otherwise be wasted |
| Solar cooking at the Machanents Center restaurant in Yerevan, Armenia |
December 2021
| 49,000 solar cookers distributed in Zhangye, China through the Heqing Solar Cooker Project |
| See the current map showing the locations of solar cookers in use around the world |
| Eliesheriff Joseph continues his workshops in Haiti, this time constructing Copenhagen solar panel cookers |
November 2021
| Building back Suryakumbh, the first since 2019 is held in Mokhada, India |
| Solar Cookers International presented advancements made in solar cooking at this year's COP26 |
| Foundation for Sustainable Technologies continues to provide meals and services in rural Nepal on a regular basis |
| Pallavi Patil of Pune, India, describes the many ways she has reduced her LPG consumption with the help of solar cooking |
| Cooking with polluting fuels is a silent killer - here’s what can be done |
| Italian engineers are roasting coffee with the rays of the sun |
Events
Online Events
- NEW: 24-26 January 2022: Fourth International Conference: Advances in Solar Thermal Food Processing - CONSOLFOOD2022 is now planned to be an online event. Advances in solar cooking as well as solar thermal food processing will be presented. Event registration fee is 80 euros for those people using an account of a bank of any country of the European community, and 100 euros for others. If you are interested in attending this online conference please send your registration data before 20 January 2022 to cruivo@ualg.pt and you will be sent payment options. The latest information on registration, content, and event scheduling can be found at http://www.consolfood.org
Australia
- 6-10 February 2022 (Perth): World Renewable Energy Congress XXI - Hosted by Murdoch University, The conference will focus on finding 'A Pathway to Economic Recovery and Climate Mitigation'. With a broad agenda, conference organizers are requesting proposals for presentation, and have acknowledged solar cooking to be a viable technology to help achieve the stated objectives. They encourage solar cooking organizations to submit proposals. More information...
Austria
- 5-7 April 2022: ISEC - The 2nd International Sustainable Energy Conference 2022 will be taking place in Graz, Austria. It will be a forum for innovative ideas in the areas of renewable energy systems and resource efficiency. The conference is intended to clarify issues and offer direction for research, industry and energy policy. Conference information...
Brazil
- 22-24 June 2022 (Marabá-PA): ENSUS 2022 - ENSUS is a national event, with international coverage and participation, which aims to promote knowledge aimed at sustainability applied in engineering, architecture and urbanism, design and related areas. It will include online events as as well as in-person participation. The conference will be in Portuguese. More information...
Indonesia
- 17-19 March 2022 (Jakarta): 7th SOLARTECH Indonesia - (Rescheduled from 30 September-2 October 2021) to be held at JIExpo Kemayoran Jakarta. More information...
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- Have your event listed here by emailing paul@solarcookers.org.
See also:
New content
January 2022:
- Mexico news: Delicias de Oaxaca is drying foods for sale which might otherwise be wasted
- Solar food dryers: A new Wiki article listing individual solar dryers available for purchase or self-construction
- Armenia news: Solar cooking at the Machanents Center restaurant in Yerevan - Atlas Obscura
- Solar tunnel dryer: Solar tunnel dryer design for Kenya and Uganda
- Haiti news: Making a Copenhagen Beast solar panel cooker video (Haitian Creole)
- Trough cooker design: Ivan Yaholnitsky offers a construction modification for his popular trough cooker
- Solar cooker museum: Luther Krueger showcases a number of his solar cookers in a CONSOLFOOD 2020 webinar
December 2021:
- USA news: Solar on La Crosse Wisconsin Schools, donates solar oven learning tools to district classrooms
- India news: Couple Cooks Homegrown Veggies in Solar Cooker; Cuts Costs by Rs 20,000/Year
- Heat storage: Sun Buckets CFO, Joe Bradley, video interviewed by Luther Krueger, relates the history of the company as they the Sun Bucket
- France news: Low-tech-Lab is a non-profit profiling sustainable and affordable technologies
- China news: 49,000 solar cookers distributed in Zhangye, China through the Heqing Solar Cooker Project!
- Hybrid solar cooker: The GoSun Fusion offers a low-wattage heating element for nighttime use
- Solar food drying: Bernhard Müller presents the Kiin, an easy-to-build solar food dryer
- Haiti news: Eliesheriff Joseph continues his steady stream of projects, this time constructing Copenhagen solar panel cookers for the Hinche community
- Canada news: Sustainable agriculture and solar cooking at the Mattawa Eco Farm and Discovery Centre - baytoday.ca
- Rwanda news: The government announced subsidies for lower income citizens to help purchase clean cooking technologies - MININFRA
- Yemen news: Women in Taizz learn to fabricate solar cookers to sell at the local market - reliefweb
- Heat storage: New Transparent Aerogel For Better Solar Power Plants - Green Earth Moon
November 2021:
- Suryakumbh news: The first to take place since 2019 is held in Mokhada, India
- Greenhouse design: Matteo Muccioli has designed a cook pot/greenhouse 'bowl-in-bowl' combination for his Kimono Solar Cooker
- Solar cooking at COP26: Solar Cookers International presented advancements made in solar cooking at this year's COP26
- Nepal news: Foundation for Sustainable Technologies continues to provide meals and services in rural Nepal on a regular basis
- Reducing LPG consumption: Pallavi Patil of Pune, India, describes the many ways she has reduced her LPG consumption with the help of solar cooking - The Better India
- India news: Indore: Students marvel at varied uses of solar power at Janak McGilligan's centre - The Free Press Journal
- Solar food processing news: Jamie O'Shea and Bjorn Quenemoen provide a video update of their solar food roasting business in N.Y., USA
- Uganda news: Esther Nattabi continues to build her social enterprise, UGwal Clean Energy Ltd.
- Household air pollution: Cooking with polluting fuels is a silent killer - here’s what can be done - World Economic Forum
- Haiti news: Eliesheriff Joseph continues hosting regular solar cooking workshops in the Hinche area, this time at the Maison Fortuna orphanage
- (EVENT) Heat retention cooking: 18 November 2021 (9:00am-10:00am PST, 17:00-18:00GMT): The Solar Education Project, Sacramento City College's Global Studies Program and Makerspace, and several solar cooking colleagues around the world, sponsor a free online workshop on building and using a heat retention cooker
- Solar food processing news: Roasting coffee with the rays of the sun - AP News
- Italy news: Italian engineers are roasting coffee with the rays of the sun- TechXplore
- Researcher profile: Francisco Laranjo spends time with Celestino Ruivo on a hot July afternoon, and experiences the delight of solar cooking
- Cooking tips: Ajay Chandak offers a suggestion to provide even heating with a parabolic solar cooker
- India news: A young entrepreneur from Indore MP, Suneel Chauhan, has begun testing a prototype system he calls the Solar Tea Stall on Cycle
- (EVENT) SCI at COP26: 1-11 November 2021 - Solar Cookers International is participating in a number of news conferences and side events at this year's COP26 taking place in Glasgow, Scotland. See the Events page
For older news and new-content log, please see the Solar cooking news archive.
Contact
- For questions and comments about the Solar Cooking Wiki (this website), contact paul@solarcookers.org. To reach Solar Cookers International, contact info@solarcookers.org.
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