[Stoves] solar cooker response (changing thread name)

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Solar concentrating cooker:



One of the main problems encountered with solar cookers (K14, K16 and so on) in the last big GIZ effort in North-West Province of South Africa was, in spite of the rural location, theft of the stoves for sale to scrap merchants. Aluminum is valuable.



Another common problem is wind tipping them over.

A third is wind-blown dust getting into the food.

A fourth is theft of the food.

A fifth is storage of the unit.



People have little space in their homes and storage of a valuable cooker outdoors is not practical.



GIZ spent about 7m Euros on that project and declared no further interest in solar cookers.



Crispin
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