Monday January 23rd, 2012 Meeting Minutes
History of the Project
- Projects that help people change their lives, supported locally, sustainable over the long term
- Steven Foundation, original box cooker design
- Ovens reduce smoke, and reduce wood. Save time and much cheaper
- Our light stand, 20 500W halogen lamps, 1.2 kw- meter
- Help women's group by contributing designs and ideas, fostering requistive understanding, allowing technology to grow
Last year
- PREFAB, come up with prefabricatable and portable oven (for nicaragua, domincan republic, and peru in high andes), lighter and glassless oven
- PROP ROD, methods for holding lids up for long periods of time
- CONCENTRATION, methods of concentrating light in ovens, work with fresnel lenses
- INSULATION, Constructed testing apparatus and tested a variety of insulations
- INCLINED OVEN, oven for use in ithaca
This Spring
- women excited about portable oven, want a second prototype
- continue work from the spring
- insulation testing, deterioration
- desalinating water