Solar cooking news archive

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India team preparing for mass production of solar wall oven

GoSun Fusion debuts with solar powered battery back-up for nighttime cooking

AfriShiners 3rd International Workshop to be held in Eldoret, Kenya in March 2019. (Unfortunately, registration is full for this event)

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• Fresnel lens concern: Heliac offers a directive on the use of their product to avoid accidentals fires
• Design and plans: The E&S Solar Oven
• Report: Solar Water Pasteurization and Water Disinfection in Developing Countries - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Discussion forum archive: Solar Cooking Archive Discussion Forums
• Uganda Facebook group: Solar Connect Association Uganda Gulu Branch
• Mali news: Togo Tilé reports stellar solar product sales in 2018
• Montenegro individual: Bozina Komatina
• Annual report: Rapport d’activités 2018 - Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil
• Research paper: Ensuring the Completion of Solar Cooking Process under Unexpected Reduction in Solar Irradiance - Atul Sagade, et al
• SolSource news: Available on Amazon.com
• Kenya Facebook group: Solar Cooking Introduction
• Italy Facebook group: SolAAR Lab
• Wiki article: Health benefits of solar cooking
• Heat storage news: Sun Buckets documentary
• Solar cooker design: GoSun Go
• India news: World Earth Day: On Mission to Save Environment, Gujarat Engineer Designs Solar Cooker That Costs Just Rs 100 - News 18
• Funding resource: UNDP Transparency Portal
• USA Facebook group: Secret Solar Institute of North Nevada
• Brazil Facebook group: Garota Intelligentsia

• Fresnel solar cooker news: You could soon save hundreds on your energy bills with this ‘solar oven’ that uses heat of the SUN to cook your dinner - The Sun
• Sweden news: SaltX hackathon winners to solve climate change - The Daily Telescope
• Philippines news: A shelter driven by the sun - Inquirer.Net
• Photovotaic solar cooker news: After Saubhagya, govt plans induction stoves for the poor - Live Mint
• Photovotaic solar cooker news: Bridging the last mile: Accelerating access to cooking energy in India - Opinion by Amit Kumar | ET EnergyWorld - Energyworld
• India news: On Mission to Save Environment, Gujarat Engineer Designs Solar Cooker That Costs Just Rs 100 - NEWS 18
• Evacuated-tube cooker news: We tested the GoSun Go solar oven — here’s what we thought - Inhabitat
• Mexico news: Mexican student develops cactus capsules to purify water with the aid of a solar cooker - The Yucatan Times
• Afghanistan news: Using the sun to reduce air pollution in Kabul - The Hindu
• Project funder: Global Environment Facility (GEF)
• USA news: Allen changes focus to solar energy - Bingham County Chronicle
• Cyprus news: Cyprus inventor and entrepreneur explains his solar cooker business - CyprusMail Online
• Research paper: An investigation of a solar cooker with parabolic trough concentrator - Muhamman Noman, et al

• Uganda news: Four Ugandan companies win grants to power refugee camps - Uganda 7
• EVENT: 5-7 July 2019 (Trozena, Cyprus): Solar Cooking with a black ceramic steam cooker
• NGO news: SCI's Performance Evaluation Process named as Finalist in MIT Climate CoLab "Energy Supply 2018" contest
• Manufacturer news: Heliac Solar earns the Judges' Choice Award in MIT Climate CoLab "Energy Supply 2018" contest
• India news: Smart Solar Cooking Solutions Design National Challenge 2019 for young Indian innovators. Application required by 31 March 2019
• Mexico news: The Mexican NGO Techamos Una Mano donates solar cookers to owners of crowd-built houses in Oaxaca
• Materials: Graphene Device Sops Up Sunlight, Heats to 160 °C (320 °F) in Seconds - IEEE Spectrum
• France Facebook group: Les Festins Photoniques
• Solar Cookers International news: SCI Blog
• Photovoltaic cooking paper: Insulated Solar Electric Cooking – Tomorrow's healthy affordable stoves?
• EVENT: 30-31 May 2019: Pathways to Clean Cooking 2050: Leaving No-one Behind (Wexford, Ireland) - The conference will focus attention on reaching the furthest behind first, with topics such as: 􏰀households and settings, evaluating pathways to modern sustainable cooking energy systems, policy options, and more.
• Book: The tale of a young Bangladeshi boy who enters his school's sustainability contest with a solar cooker design to help improve his family's health - Kids Can Press
• Cooking news: GoSun Thermo tracks food temperature wirelessly
• Cooking pot news: Heat retention myths and facts: Does cast iron hold heat better than clad? - CenturyLife.org
• Solar cooker design: Newton Solar Oven
• Germany news: Kooperation beim Klimaschutz - Sonnenenergie
• Cooking pot news: Soot-based coatings for solar cookers - H. Servín-Campuzano, et al

• India news: Vocational Training On Preservation Of Fruits And Vegetables Concludes At Krishi Vigyan Kendra Fatehgarh Sahib - 5 Dariya News
• Manufacturer news: New stove manufacturer in India uses heat storage for evening cooking
• EVENT: 22-24 January 2020: CONSOLFOOD2020 (Faro, Portugal) - The next solar thermal food processing conference is being planned, and is encouraging submission of abstracts, by 31 May 2019.
• Education news: Wellesley author’s book has kids cooking with solar power - The Swellesley Report
• EVENT: September 2019 (Benguerir Green City, Morocco): Solar Decathlon AFRICA
• Solar drying news: Solar Energy Drying in Haiti: Reducing Peanut Loss
• France vendor: Soleil Vert
• Solar wall oven news: Window-mounted solar oven - Design Innovation Center (Mumbai)
• India news: StartupBharat: From solar stoves to 3D printing, four stories of innovation from Gujarat - YourStory

• Carbon credit news: Compensation of CO₂ emissions as a global opportunity for climate protection (English, Spanish) - Dieter Seifert
• Individual news: RPCV Patricia McArdle: PCV, Diplomat, Novelist, Solar Cook - Peace Corps Worldwide
• GoSun news: GoSun woos outdoor cooks with Fusion's solar power - TechXplore
• EVENT: 6-7 April 2019 (Altötting, Germany): - EG-Solar is sponsoring a solar cooking conference in Altötting, Germany in conjunction with local students. The conference language will be German. Contact Bernhard Müller if interested in more information.
• EVENT: 8-10 May 2019 (Florianopolis, Brazil): - ENSUS 2019 - VII Encontro de Sustentabilidade em Projeto
• Evacuated-tube cooker news: GoSun's Fusion solar cooker revealed at CES 2019 - C|Net
• Puerto Rico news: Faith-Based Social Entrepreneurs Bank Puerto Rico Trash Will Fuel Island's Growth - Forbes
• EVENT: 21-23 March 2019 (Eldoret, Kenya): - The AfriShiners 3rd International Workshop will take place in Eldoret, Kenya in March 2019 (Unfortunately, registration is full for this event). More information...
• Namibia news: Solar cooking impresses workshop participants - The Namibian