Solar cooking news archive

News

COP25 Video: SCI Executive Director Caitlyn Hughes discusses adopting solar cooking on a grander scale with a representative from the Marshall Islands

On-demand recording of recent CONSOLFOOD webinar now available

Ultra low-tech Solar Household Energy Bank provides heat for many uses

Solar Cookers International provides 300 refugees with solar cookers and training in the Kakuma Refugee Camp

This wiki's companion Facebook group, the Solar Cookers World Network, reaches 4000 members

CONSOLFOOD 2020 publishes preliminary Conference Proceedings

The Solar Cooking Wiki receives nearly 500,000 pageviews in 2019

Solar Cookers International featured in Physics World

Photos from the CONSOLFOOD 2020 conference in Faro, Portugal now available

Jim La Joie offers 100 free collapsible solar cookers to individuals traveling to Africa

Events

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• 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 groups: El Fuego Del Sol - Grupo Jaragua
• 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

• Video: Adopting Solar Cooking on a Grander Scale
• Video: New York artist Mary Frank talks about solar cooking at about the 42 minute mark
• Audio interview: Prof. Elmo Dutra Filho – Teaching Solar Cooking to Poor People in Brazil - SunPod
• Bangladesh news: Exploiting renewable energy resources - The Financial Express
• Classroom resource: http://energyteachers.org (The network for educators interested in energy production and use)
• Classroom resource: Taking Solar Cookers to Schools - Shawn Reeves
• Event rescheduled: USA events to be held online
• Event rescheduled: Australia Smart Energy Conference postposed until September
• (EVENT) 26-28 August 2020 (Jakarta): SOLARTECH Indonesia 2020 - More information...
• (EVENT) 29 June - 01 July 2020 (Frieburg, Germany): International Energy Workshop - More information...
• (EVENT) 27 March 2020 (14:00 - 15:30 GMT) Webinar: Women’s Energy Entrepreneurship - More information...
• (EVENT) 28 March 2020 (16:45 - 18:20 GMT): 1stWebinar CONSOLFOOD2020 - Spreading the solar cooking “virus” - More information...
• Burkina Faso news: UN-backed fund to support solar businesses in Burkina Faso - PV Magazine
• El Salvador Facebook group: Unidad Ecológica Salvadoreña
• Wiki article: Sunlight
• Design: Solar Household Energy Bank
• Wall-mounted solar cooker: Sundish
• India news: Renewable Energy: How a shift towards energy access is transforming rural India - The Economic Times
• Design: The Copenhagen Light Solar Cooker converted to a larger size by the Solar Education Project
• India news: Igniting a Solar Revolution - milleniumpost
• Kenya news: Global Off-Grid Solar Forum & Expo held in Nairobi
• USA individual: Luther Krueger
• India NGO on LinkedIn: Simplified Technologies for Life
• (EVENT) 23-26 June 2020 (Washington, D.C., USA): ASES SOLAR 20/20 - In conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, the American Solar Energy Society is sponsoring the global event, SOLAR 20/20
• Photovoltaic cooker designs: Research begins using thermal diode arrays for cooking
• France/Bolivia Facebook group: Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil

• Promotion report: Combatting Desertification with Plants (Contains some very good information on how to work with local populations preserving and enhancing their dignity.)
• India vendor: Solar Cookers in Pune
• Kenya news: Solar Cookers International provides 300 people at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya with solar cookers in 2019
• Social Media: List of solar cooking online discussion and social media groups now on Solar Cooking on Social Media
• CONSOLFOOD 2020: Third International Congress on Advances in Solar Thermal Food Processing - (English version)
• Thermal storage slides: Cooking with Stored Solar Energy - Seggy & Jane Segaran
• India news: Solar energy the future of city: Experts
• Niger Facebook group: Sahara Sahel Foods
• Niger resource: Esther Garvi's recipes for 'famine foods' in Niger
• Algeria video: La passage à la télévision de Arezki Harmim pour la présentation de son premier, simple et rudimentaire cuiseur solaire boite en 2010
• Argentina Facebook group: Solar Inti
• Heat-retention cooking: Faustine Wama displays some visually delightful heat-retention cooking baskets recently created under her direction
• Social media: Solar cooking photos on Instagram
• Conference slides: A Parabolic Solar Cooking Device Developed in Lesotho - Ivan Yaholnitsky
• Taiwan news: Global Off-Grid Solar Forum & Expo: 3rd day on e-cooking, growing solar biz, PAYGo companies & more - Devdiscourse
• Bangladesh news: Bangladeshi government appeals for more partners to help roll-out off-grid solar - PV Magazine
• Costa Rica news: Building hope and solar ovens
• Peru vendor: Newly formed, HC Solar is the exclusive representative of GoSun products in Peru
• Kenya news: A 2017 community solar concentrator from GoSol.org is still in use in Kenya baking bread daily for the Friends of Ndere
• CONSOLFOOD 2020: Prof. Pedro Serrano Rodriguez has published an open letter to the participants of CF2020, and the whole solar cooking community. English version
• Video: Household Solar Energy Bank
• Preheating news: Minimizing wood needed to cook a days worth of food with Solar Hybrid Cooking - Sun Frost
• USA NGO: Solar Education Project
• Audio interview: Sun BD Corporation director David Chalker interviewed at CONSOLFOOD 2020
• Audio interview: SCI advisory board member Pat McArdle interviewed at CONSOLFOOD 2020
• Wiki news: The Solar Cooking Wiki receives more than 500,000 pageviews in 2019
• Bolivia Facebook group: Asociación Inti Illimani
• South Africa news: Solar cooker project for Inzuzwenhle learners - Maritzburg Sun
• Solar cooking history article: Las cocinas solares de Adnan Tarcici (enero 1950) - (English version)
• Dominican Republic video: Testimony about advantages of solar cooking by Minorca from Monte Cristi
• (EVENT) 2-4 December 2020 (Melbourne, Australia): SWC50 – The Century of Solar - ISES is commemorating the first International Solar Energy Society (ISES) Conference in Melbourne with a special 50th Anniversary Conference and Display, called the Solar World Congress at 50 (SWC50)
• (EVENT) 1-4 September 2020 (Athens, Greece): EuroSun2020 - The 13th Conference on Solar Energy for Buildings and Industry, sponsored by ISES, will offer a platform to discuss the latest developments with leading solar energy experts.
• (EVENT) 17-19 June 2020 (Munich, Germany): Intersolar Europe - Intersolar Europe is a leading exhibition for the solar industry, including solar thermal, and takes place annually at the Messe München Exhibition Center.
• (EVENT) 7-8 April 2020 (Sydney, Australia): Smart Energy Conference & Exhibition -Australia’s premier smart energy event will be held at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Darling Harbour
• Photovoltaic solar cooking report: Preliminary design and analysis of a proposed solar and battery electric cooking concept: costs and pricing - Leach, M., Oduro, R.
• South Africa news: Ngangifisa helps keep Diepsloot Combined School learners’ bellies full
• Germany Facebook group: Kochen mit Sonnenlicht
• USA Facebook group: Citizens for Solar
• USA Facebook group: Solar Smelters International
• Photovoltaic solar cooking news: Single Portable Induction Cooktop: What They Won’t Tell You About an Induction Burner The Equipped Cook
• Video: Stromboli being solar baked by the Bethel Business and Community Development Centre
• (EVENT) Sunday 23 August 2020 (Sorède, France): FOURSOLAIRE 2020 - "Let's Solar Cook" A gathering of amateurs, professionals, and the merely curious, will come together near the site of the Himalaya 1900 Solar Furnace in southern France to celebrate solar cooking.
• Design: Winebox Solar Rice Cooker
• Uganda news: Haines 2.0 Solar Cookers for Refugees in Uganda

• SCI news: Solar Cookers International updates Distribution of Solar Cookers Map
• SCI news: Solar Cookers International featured in Physics World article and podcast (Article..., Podcast...)
• Kenya news: Kenya learns to cook with solar power - even when the sun doesn't shine - Reuters
• Zimbabwe news: Amid crippling power cuts, Zimbabwe turns to solar energy - The Washington Post
• Report: Low-cost solar household energy - Dale Andreatta
• Report: Adding cold water to boiling water to achieve pasteurization temperatures without a thermometer - Nzoia Water and Services Co Lt
• China manufacturer: Jet-Flame
• USA NGO: Florida Renewable Energy Association
• France video: Des cuiseurs solaires pour lutter contre la précarité énergétique
• Bolivia news: Création d'un réseau de vendeuses de cuiseurs solaires en Bolivie - (English version) - Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil
• USA news: SCI supporter Darwin Curtis makes solar cooking research possible
• Photos: CONSOLFOOD 2020
• Brazil NGO: Garota Intelligentsia
• Haiti NGO: Haiti Adolescent Girls Network
• Handbook: Fabrication de cuiseurs et séchoirs solaires - Cristelle Sourian and David Amelin
• Heat-retention cooking video: Fireless Cooker Presentation - Faustine Wama
• South Africa report: The feasibility of introducing solar ovens to rural women in Maphephethe - Merridy Wilson and J Maryann Green
• Mexico news: SHE works with Lorena Harp on the solar cooker initiative in Oaxaca State - Solar Household Energy
• Manufacturer news: One Earth Designs, maker of SolSource solar cooker, shuts down after raising $500,000 from Mark Cuban - Tech StartUps
• USA news: The HotPot solar panel cooker is again for sale in the USA
• Cookbook: Recetario de Olla Solar
• Video: Prueba con frijoles en un Haines I
• Video: Cómo armar un Horno Solar Haines I
• Video: Tips and tricks for HotPot winter use
• Kenya Facebook group: Student Solar Cooking Science Projects Eldoret, Kenya
• Video: Basics of Cooking with the Sun - Sun Ovens International
• India Facebook group: Solar Cooking Campaign for Grassroots
• USA article in the media: California school tests its solar ovens
• Video: New Solar Oven Design - SunTaste Unboxing and Cooking
• Facebook group: SolarcookingIntroduction
• (EVENT) 26 February 2020 (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA): Cooking With Sunlight: Learn the history, benefits, and use of solar cooking
• Parabolic cooker purchase site: Purchase the BS-M1 model in quantity on Alibaba
• Heat-retention cooking guide: The Fireless Cooker - Faustine Wama
• UK Facebook group: Solar Cooking UK
• Mozambique report: Solar cooking in Mozambique – an investigation of end-user’s needs for the design of solar cookers - Pia Otte