Solar Cookers International will exhibit solar thermal cookers from around the world that are being used to prepare food and safe drinking water. Almost three billion people still cook their daily meals over open fires using various forms of biomass — wood, dung, charcoal and agricultural waste — depleting the earth’s rapidly vanishing forests and [...]
The total number of solar cookers is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of around 6% during 2010-2013, says RNCOS in its latest research report. Indian solar industry has witnessed rapid during the past few years and is projected to grow further in future. Demand for solar products has been rapidly rising for the past [...]
Alex Williams can do a lot with a pot, a magnifying lens and the sun. The Oshkosh West High School senior said he recently took a rib on a stick and cooked it on a homemade solar cooker that he had built. It’s a 49-square-inch lens supported by a frame and pointed skyward. He let [...]
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About 15 years ago a small group of women in the village San Andres (Mexico) started production of a sweet agave syrup. They formed a cooperative to make the syrup of the juice of the green agave. The process involves intensive cooking of the raw juice to concentrate it into a syrup using big gas stoves which consume large [...]