Solar Cooking News
The First Solar Community Kitchen
by Louise Meyer, Swiss Review, No.2, 2001 — Louise Meyer reports from a trip to Egypt. Alex Gagneux, the Swiss mechanical engineer responsible for building this kitchen was first brought into a project by Anna Marie Wenger-Marti, an… Read More
Langley’s SSE Data May Help Power Afghanistan
by Julia Cole, SAIC Solar Household Energy, Inc. (SHE) recently confirmed that enough sunlight reaches Afghanistan to power solar cookers for people without electricity. SHE made the determination using information from Langley Research Center’s Surface Meteorology and Solar… Read More
Reflections Of a Solar Cook
by Nicole M. Miller, Washington Post Staff Writer, Washington Post ‘FOOD’ Section, Page F01, August 29, 2001 Back from an early morning walk with her dog, Cokey, Louise Meyer starts to make dinner. It’s 7:30 a.m., the sky… Read More
Afghanistan’s Forests : Bare Mountains, Poor People
The Economist, Nov 1st 2001 Missing trees reflect the country’s woeful recent history FAISABAD WHITE peaks, brown hills, a muddy river and pungent blue wood-smoke in Faisabad, the largest city in opposition-controlled Afghanistan, all mark the opening of… Read More
Solar Dryer Systems and the Internet: important resources to improve food preparation
by David E. Whitfield, November 2000 Presented at:INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOLAR COOKINGKIMBERLY – SOUTH AFRICA26th – 29th NOVEMBER, 2000 ABSTRACT In many countries of the world, the use of solar thermal systems in the agricultural area to conserve… Read More
