• UMS students come up with efficient solar cooker

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    There is a lot of talk going on about reducing carbon foot-print by bringing in more efficient vehicles and gadgets. However, the energy used in cooking food and the emissions thus caused are never considered to be a problem. In a mini project carried out by a group of 76 students of UMS (Universiti Malaysia Sabah), they have come up with designs of 10 solar cookers designed on the lines of the Kyoto Box invented by Jon Bohmer. When this solar cooker is placed on the ground facing the sun, the heat-trap box design of these cookers does not allow the heat to escape out of the box. This innovative design is built simply using plywood, a glass panel, and newspapers, to be stuffed along the sides which will act as insulators.


    These solar cookers have almost the equal amount of functionality when compared to conventional cookers. Apart from reducing usage of conventional forms of energy such as LPG, these cookers are made using recycled and recyclable materials, which makes using them, economic and eco-friendly.
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    Posted in Topics:Alternative Energy, Tags: , on March 22, 2010