Solar Lovin'
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The Solar Ovens team designs, builds, and tests solar cookers or ovens. Our mission is to improve and optimize solar oven designs in order to provide the third world with a cheap, sustainable, easy alternative to wood fired cooking. We are partnered with Grupo Fenix
,an organization at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeneria in Nicaragua, and Las Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa, a women's organization in Sabana Grande, Nicaragua. Grupo Fenix works in rural areas to develop, implement and publicize renewable, sustainable solutions to energy needs in rural Nicaragua. Las Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa has worked with Grupo Fenix building and using solar cookers and dryers. Sabana Grande is in a region suffering from deforestation. Solar Ovens reduce the need for women to spend hours of their day gathering resources and reduce the health risks from fires. The Solar Oven Team works to evolve the cooker design and increase Solar Oven usage.
Testing the Concentrating Cooker
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Current Research Projects:
- Test insulating materials such as fiberglass batts and rice husks, which might replace wood shavings (which are presently used), allowing better long term operation of the cookers.
- Build and test a parabolic reflector for cooking use.
- Design and build two smaller box cookers for demonstration use in the Ithaca, NY area (42.4 degrees north latitude).
- Design and test a better prop rod (support mechanism for the reflective cover of the cooker).
System for Testing Insulation
Other Information
Team Members A list of current and past members of the Solar Ovens team
Weekly Reports Team accomplishments each week to Professor Richardson
Documents from Previous Teams An archive of past documents.
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