Useful Websites

Hello!

Here are some useful websites Jia Yun found them.
http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Introduction_to_solar_cooking
http://www.solarcooking.org/
http://www.cookwiththesun.com/

For integrated solar cooking:
http://www.integratedsolarcooking.com/
Integrated solar cooking should be worth mentioning in our presentation since I don’t think there will be much space left in our poster to add this. If not Jess can do a brief summary and add this in too. thanks!! Brief background below:

Integrated solar cooking can be used to reduce usage of natural fuels. Integrated solar cooking taps on solar energy when it is available, and also allows usage of wood, charcoal etc when solar energy is unavailable.

When solar energy is available, integrated solar cooker uses the same principles as normal solar cookers. However, the additional features of this solar cooker enhances its feasibility to be used in places w/o cooking gas. When solar energy is unavailable, a ’six-brick Rocket stove’ is used. Wood is used as a fuel for heating, and the advantage of this ’six-brick Rocket stove’ is that it is relatively clean and highly efficent. A hay basket that comes together with this solar cooker allows food to be kept warm for longer periods of time, which might speed up solar cooking and reduce the usage of energy to keep food warm (water heaters).

yup.. that’s all  

Feasibility of Solar Cooking

Found a good report which contains loads of stuff that we could use.

It’s here. (WARNING! It’s a PDF! Save As if you don’t want major Acrobat browser lag)

Summarized things I’ve got from it so far:

The feasibility depends on many variables. It’s not a catch-all kind of statement you can make, though I think we can make sort-of-generalized-but-not-too-generalized statements for our final product (like, specific to SG)

1. price of fuel, ovens
2. availibility of sunlight
3. cooking techniques
4. household size
5. cooking schedule

Jen can you do some more poking around of this. Thanks.