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ACT 3: My Solar Cooker and The Eco Kettle
MY SOLAR COOKER
When I read this mission I was inspired to go out and build my very own solar cooker\boiler. I set about by searching the internet for solar cooker designs. Many came up, but I chose simple and efficient design using easily accessible materials i.e. wood,tinfoil and a rubber mat. My design was the box cooker. You can see the actual solar cooker I made above.
To test my solar cooker I decided to try and boil water. IT WORKED! my water reached 100 degrees celsius therefor it boiled. (obviously it can be used to cook food as well)
A household kettle is one of the most energy consuming appliances.
For the general consumer a practical way for them to save energy and the planet would be for each household to purchase a ECO KETTLE!
The Eco Kettle has been invented to specifically meet the challenge of reducing
the amount of energy wasted by overfilling your kettle. With the Eco Kettle,
you can fill the kettle to the brim and simply press the central button
in the lid to release a specific amount of water (1-to-8 cups worth) into
the boiling chamber. This easy, simple method of accurately ensuring that
you boil only the water that you need means that you can save the planet
while on your tea break!
money. And what's more, choosing the easy Eco-Kettle-way to conserving
energy while boiling water, helps minimize carbon dioxide emission levels.
It's an easy, simple and valuable choice to make.
In independent consumer trials, directed by the Energy Saving Trust, the ECO kettle used over 30% less energy than standard
kettles - Defra estimate that If everybody in the UK used an ECO Kettle,
we would save 1,270,000,000 KWh of electricity every
year!
The ECO Kettle was invented in the UK by Brian Hartley, and designed and developed for the marketplace by Product Creation Ltd. Since it's
launch in the UK in 2005, around 200,000 ECO Kettles have been sold in the UK and around the world, making estimated CO2 savings of over 1,000 tonnes! It is still the only kettle to be awarded the Energy Saving Trust's 'Recommended' mark, and contributes to the UK Government's Carbon Emmissions Reduction Target.
This is an amazing innovation and I encourage everyone to purchase one.
Practice conservation for the future generation.
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Comment by Khaled Kurdi on March 24, 2010 at 10:30am
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Good work... very resourceful
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Comment by Gilda Lorena Arias on March 24, 2010 at 10:44am
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Great Work!!! +1 R
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Comment by Pam Broviak on March 24, 2010 at 11:11am
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Do you have the link to the site showing how to make your box cooker? My kids would love to try something like that.
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Comment by Nicolai abruzzese on March 24, 2010 at 1:13pm
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Congratulations, it looks like a really easy design to share with the world!
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Comment by David Stacey on March 24, 2010 at 1:15pm
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Wow! This is inspiring!
Unfortunately, where I live you get a lot of snow and gloomy days. I'll have to wait for the sun to come out from the clouds :)
I guess in Africa, this obviously isn't a problem.
But I recently watched a tv show, and this guy was able to effectively use one slice(?) of log to boil water and cook food. With a saw he cut 3/4 through the log in a cross shape, stuffed some twigs in between, and lit it with a match. The inside of the log would burn, heat would rise, and you could put your kettle on top (nice flat surface) to boil. This is useful if your in the forest, and is resourceful compared to gathering loads of wood for a fire.
The low use of resources to make the eco-cooker is just amazing! Great work! :)
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Comment by John Eckartz on March 24, 2010 at 3:39pm
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i made one of these before nd i made a hotdog on a tosted bun. it really worked. the nexy daay i made spagittie and it wasent that bad.
in Africa it wouldent be a problem to use this because its really hot therexD
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Comment by Michele Baron on March 24, 2010 at 3:49pm
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Good work. I think if you could pack sand or salt and sand around the inner base of the oven, it would retain heat longer, as well--or also incorporate a ceramic "fire pot" to hold the sand/salt pack, and then continue with your assembly... Have fun, good cooking!
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Comment by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys on March 24, 2010 at 10:10pm
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Cool!!!
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