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=Solar Cooking=

A **solar cooker** is a simple device which uses the energy of sunlight to heat, cook or pasteurize food or drink. The vast majority of solar cookers presently in use are cheap, and rather low-tech. Because they use no fuel and cost nothing to operate, many nonprofit organizations are promoting their use worldwide in order to help reduce fuel costs, air pollution, and to slow down environmental problems created by collecting firewood, such as deforestation and desertification. Many types of solar cookers exist, and the kind we will use is based around parabolas.

Get Cooking

 * Make yourself a parabola outta aluminum.
 * Stick some food in the middle.
 * Wait for hours on end.
 * Enjoy your undercooked meal, courtesy of period three.

Solar cookers have been distributed world wide to poverty stricken areas to help save the environment and to save lives. While before people would have to potentially walk miles to collect wood, coal, or sadly, dung for the fire to cook their meals and boil their water, people now can use solar cookers to make their food and drink safe for consumption. These links are good stories about the success of solar cookers. (We've got more links than we care to admit.)

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/12/solar.darfur/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
 * Solar Lifeline Saves Darfur Women**

http://www.jewishworldwatch.org/donate/solar-cooker-project
 * Jewish World Watch Solar Cooker Project**

http://www.jewishjournal.com/community_briefs/article/jewish_world_watch_eyes_national_stage_20060616/
 * Jewish World Watch National Stage**

http://kmr.nada.kth.se/wiki/Amb/THOTDCPF
 * Ambjörn Naeves's History With Double-Cylindrical Point Focus Solar Cookers**

http://www.auroville.org/research/ren_energy/solar_bowl.htm
 * The Solar Bowl**

http://www.auroville.org/society/solarkitchen.htm
 * The Solar Kitchen**

http://www.freewebs.com/solarkettle/
 * Solar Kettle-Thermos Flask**

http://www.suncooking.com.au/
 * Solar Cooking Australia**

http://she-inc.org/sam.pdf
 * State of the Art Solar Cooking: Early Uses of the Sun to Serve Humanity**

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2004/statement5/en/
 * Indoor Air Pollution - The Killer In the Kitchen**

http://www.integratedsolarcooking.com/whatisintegratedcooking%3F
 * What is Integrated Cooking?**

http://free.financialmail.co.za/innovations/2july/inn.htm
 * Michael Hones His Plan In A Can**