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The article also comments on the food stand owners' power bill: nothing. In a time of rising energy costs and environmental worries, this is the kind of invention that needs to be developed and promoted world wide. It's great for third world cooks, but I hope it can be developed for my kitchen as well.
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4-22-2008 @10:21AM Philip said... Does no one remember this from Mr. Wizard or elementary school? We made something just like this for science class; though I don't think we could cook an entire chicken in a mere 10 minutes... We simply used aluminum foil lined in a cardboard "frame" (think upside-down square-ish cone) which was open on top but had a piece of glass over it to keep the heat in and bugs out.
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4-22-2008 @10:16AM Alex Falk said... We used to do this in gradeschool, solar cooker, all you need is a box, aluminum foil and a wire hanger.
Countless weenies were cooked this way during the summer.
Granted glass mirrors would be much more efficient.
Hackaday.com had someone that made a huge parabolic mirror out of small mirrors and it got hot enough to obliterate a VHS tape.
http://www.hackaday.com/2005/03/23/solar-death-ray/
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4-22-2008 @1:59PM Felipe said... Sorry, but what the new about this?. Solar ovens are old, just google solar oven and you'll get a lot of diferents kind of solar oven.
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