[Stoves] solar cooker response (changing thread name)

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Nikhil

Let's not assume anything.‎ These were the findings of the study which was a multi-year attempt to find out if there was any long term reason to get involved in the promotion of solar cookers.

The conclusion was, no. ‎And they swore them off. For them, if they had a chance anywhere that was the ideal place, and it was not viable.

Very sane.
Crispin



Crispin;

You have listed enough reasons to dispute the sanity of GIZ experts.

Nikhil




On Jun 13, 2017, at 11:35 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <crispinpigott at outlook.com<mailto:crispinpigott at outlook.com>> wrote:


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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